r3tr0 Does anybody know a similar provider like mint mobile for the German market.
In Europe, the Netherlands is the only country where prepaid SIM cards can still be used anonymously.
You can buy a Lebara Holland prepaid SIM card and use it in Germany. (To activate, simply call 1244)
Roaming is EU-wide free of charge.
But in general, very little data is stored in Germany. <- BKA = FBI in US
b) Storage practices of telecommunications providers
In Germany, the current regulation on data retention has been effectively suspended since 2017. In its 2022 ruling, the EuGH expressly permitted the storage of IP addresses without cause due to the lower intensity of the intervention. However, telecommunications providers currently only store customers' telecommunications traffic data for a limited period of time for their own business purposes (e.g. for billing or IT security purposes) and sometimes not in full. In the mobile communications sector in particular, the assigned port number is often not added to the IP address, although this would be necessary to enable the connection owner to be identified. The stored data is therefore in many cases only partially suitable for identifying users of telecommunications connections from which criminal acts emanate.
Current storage/information practice of IP addresses of the five major telecommunications providers in Germany (according to the telecommunications providers[3]):
- Deutsche Telekom AG up to 7 days
- Vodafone up to 7 days
- O2 Telefonica up to 7 days
- 1&1 Versatel up to 7 days in future
- Freenet itself for 0 days
[3] The information provided by the telecommunications providers is essentially consistent with the experience of the police authorities, although minor deviations from this information were observed in practice. In the past, 1&1 Versatel kept significantly shorter records.
In some cities you can use freifunk.net. (WLAN mesh net over VPN) Is run by people associated with the 'Chaos Computer Club e. V. (CCC) Hacker Association'. Since it is a DIY network, the speed is better or worse in some cities. You can use it without registration and PW.