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The question is simple: can my mobile carrier company found out the IP assigned to my WiFi adapter, either in airplane mode or with mobile data ON?

In case my question is not clear enough, I'm going to propose these scenarios:

Scenario A

  1. I activate Airplane mode on my phone.
  2. I connect to a WiFi network.
  3. Can the mobile carrier know the IP that's being used to connect to the Internet and hence the ISP account, as well?

Scenario B

  1. Data is ON (Airplane mode is OFF).
  2. I connect to a WiFi network.
  3. Can the mobile carrier know the IP that's being used to connect to the Internet and hence the ISP account, as well?

Thanks.

Run5k
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The answer is that your mobile carrier could do anything. Many devices come with carrier provided customization to the OS as well as uninstallable Apps.

If they wanted to log IP addresses of all interfaces that would be trivial. In Scenario A they would have to store the log locally and upload it later.

The only way to be sure this is not happening is to install a clean version of Android with no carrier modifcations and then not allow carrier apps to be loaded.

The real question is: Who is your mobile carrier? What phone do you have? Does that device have carrier spyware? Is that carrier using said spyware to collect IP addresses of all interfaces?

As you can see there are many factors here and the only people who would know are employees of your mobile carrier.

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