How Private is Pretty Good Phone Privacy?
The creators of PGPP want to protect users from IMSI-catchers and location monitoring by rotating IMSIs and obfuscating geography but their methods are unlikely to scale and have important drawbacks.
Nigeria Issues RFQ for National Phone Tracking System to ‘Fight Cybercrime and Insecurity’
The national regulator will be able to monitor and block any device with an IMEI.
Indian Police Find Same IMEI Used by 13,557 Handsets from Chinese Manufacturer
Smartphone maker Vivo ignored Indian rules requiring a unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number for each handset.