Chances are you’re not an international spy, a member of an organized crime family or a drug smuggler, but in a world where smartphones contain reams of sensitive personal data and can easily be used to track our locations, a burner phone might make sense to anyone wary being an “open book.”

Burner phones are disposable, prepaid mobile phones that, if used correctly, can provide anonymous communication.

“Burner phones are used for a very specific, time-limited purpose and then discarded,” says Danacea Vo, founder of Cyberlixir, a cybersecurity provider for nonprofits and vulnerable communities told the news and tech outlet Wired. “They’re mostly used to separate your identity from the identity of the device. Anonymity is the goal.”

While it’s easy to see why criminals would be intereste

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