Cell Phone Privacy: Must I register myself to the Fed to get a Cell Phone?

Well, so far no one has answered your question.

No one has cited a specific law that would require any company to demand a name and SSN, especially when you mentioned that you would pay the full two year contract for CASH. A paid contract does not extend credit and their would be no reasons for any adjustment to your credit report.

I would give a thumbs up to Rayvan for knowing Neimand.

Your question has indirectly sampled that most of your answers do not give a fig about personal privacy. Which in the future will come home to haunt them. The less than subtle indoctrination that everyone need more information about you and people being conditioned to provide it will see a police state that Hitler and Stalin could only dreamt as a total fantasy. I recently read that Obama's HHS is requiring MD (who desire to get paid) are required to ask children if their are any gun in their home. Very Rooseveltian, who in his fireside chats told children to report their parents for hoarding coins (especially gold coins) in their home.

To answer your question --- I do not know of any law that requires a fully paid contract to be identified. Perhaps some individual would offer a 4G unlimited phone prepaid with no tracing. But I would fear that the government would not let it happen.

You give up a certain amount of privacy when you ask that credit be extended you and you enter into a contract with a company.

You are entering into a contract with them and they are extending credit to you. It is well within their rights to see that you are who you say you are and have you SSN in order to run a credit check on you.

If you don't want to give this information just go buy a prepaid cell phone.

You would be entering into a contract with T-Mobile, and they want your SSN and ID to verify that you are who you say you are so they can track you down and either sue you or attach negatives to your credit report if you don't pay your bills.

Trying to enter into a contract as "Nobody" (Niemand is German for nobody) would stop anyone from joining into it with you.

Get a pre-paid service if you are that interested in privacy and don't want to give out your information.

If you don't want to provide that information, then get a prepaid phone - like Virgin.

They ask you for your ID so that if you default on your payments they can track you down and make you pay your bill. They also want to be able to check your credit.

You want a service based on monthly billing, you need to provide SS number in case you don't pay your bill so they can go after you.