To avoid handing over sensitive data, some security experts are recommending a simple solution: travel with a burner phone.

Burner phone companies don’t track personal data, and burners can be purchased with cash—for both the phone and a prepaid plan—so you can walk out of a store and start calling and texting ...

A burner phone number is basically the same thing. You sign up with an app or service that provides a second phone number. You use it until you don’t need it anymore, and then you ditch the number.

As for how much a burner phone will cost you, that all depends on what you want from the device. Assuming you're not looking for a prepaid smartphone, you can pick one up for as low as $20, but ...

7-day trial . Unlimited texts, talk, and pictures: $4.99 per month or $47.88 per year. Burner grabbed the best name for this kind of product. Limited to US and Canadian numbers, the service offers ...

Why it’s called a burner phone. So-called burner phones have been around since the mid-1990s, when the first prepaid mobile phone was awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

I’m choosing to travel with what’s known as a burner phone because my personal device contains sensitive data that I don’t want others, particularly U.S. border protection officers, to search.

Burner phones, prepaid phones, smartphones and burner SIMs: What's the difference? Burner phones are typically cheap feature phones and usually don't come with the bells and whistles of a smartphone.