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Can you expand? I cannot imagine what you do with your phone in order not to have sensitive info on it. At the very least your approximate location and people

by phn 11y ago

Can you expand? I cannot imagine what you do with your phone in order not to have sensitive info on it. At the very least your approximate location and people you talk to is definitely in there.

jacquesm 11y ago
That approximate location is not on the phone (but in the cell tower your phone currently sees as closest, you can query that but you don't have to and it is not something a party on the other side of a data connection can normally query) and who you talk to does not have to be in there either, it's up to you to populate your address book and to keep your history.
- jshen 11y ago
  > That approximate location is not on the phone It is on any smart phone with GPS, or at least, one should assume it is. > who you talk to does not have to be in there either Really? If the number is there does it matter if the name isn't in your address book? I'm fairly tech savvy and how much confidence do I really have that clearing my call history actually removes it from the phone all together?
  - jacquesm 11y ago
    > It is on any smart phone with GPS, or at least, one should assume it is. Not on mine. > Really? If the number is there does it matter if the name isn't in your address book? I'm fairly tech savvy and how much confidence do I really have that clearing my call history actually removes it from the phone all together? You don't need any confidence because it is safe to assume you've given those numbers to the phone company (and by extension the secret service of your own country and probably in some back room deal to the United States and from there to the other five eyes countries). So you're paranoid about the wrong thing. Your cellphone 'knows where it is' but so do you and anybody looking at your cellphone, that's not exactly secret information. Where it was may be a different story. And where it is is interesting information when looking from the providers side into the network.
    - jshen 11y ago
      Do you not have GPS on your phone or do you have it but know that it never saves your location history? If the latter, how do you know?
      - jacquesm 11y ago
        I do not have GPS on my phone and that's a conscious choice.
        jshen 11y ago
        Gotcha, that makes sense. I'm not sure it is possible to have it and know that your info is private, which I'm assuming you feel as well given you don't have it. I have it for the benefits and accept that my info probably isn't private.
wslh 11y ago
Sensitive data is data I don't want to share, like private notes, private source code, or private photos. These are not there. I don't carry a mobile phone if I care about my location.

by phn 11y ago

Can you expand? I cannot imagine what you do with your phone in order not to have sensitive info on it. At the very least your approximate location and people you talk to is definitely in there.

jacquesm 11y ago

That approximate location is not on the phone (but in the cell tower your phone currently sees as closest, you can query that but you don't have to and it is not something a party on the other side of a data connection can normally query) and who you talk to does not have to be in there either, it's up to you to populate your address book and to keep your history.

jshen 11y ago
> That approximate location is not on the phone It is on any smart phone with GPS, or at least, one should assume it is. > who you talk to does not have to be in there either Really? If the number is there does it matter if the name isn't in your address book? I'm fairly tech savvy and how much confidence do I really have that clearing my call history actually removes it from the phone all together?
- jacquesm 11y ago
  > It is on any smart phone with GPS, or at least, one should assume it is. Not on mine. > Really? If the number is there does it matter if the name isn't in your address book? I'm fairly tech savvy and how much confidence do I really have that clearing my call history actually removes it from the phone all together? You don't need any confidence because it is safe to assume you've given those numbers to the phone company (and by extension the secret service of your own country and probably in some back room deal to the United States and from there to the other five eyes countries). So you're paranoid about the wrong thing. Your cellphone 'knows where it is' but so do you and anybody looking at your cellphone, that's not exactly secret information. Where it was may be a different story. And where it is is interesting information when looking from the providers side into the network.
  - jshen 11y ago
    Do you not have GPS on your phone or do you have it but know that it never saves your location history? If the latter, how do you know?
    - jacquesm 11y ago
      I do not have GPS on my phone and that's a conscious choice.
      - jshen 11y ago
        Gotcha, that makes sense. I'm not sure it is possible to have it and know that your info is private, which I'm assuming you feel as well given you don't have it. I have it for the benefits and accept that my info probably isn't private.

wslh 11y ago

Sensitive data is data I don't want to share, like private notes, private source code, or private photos. These are not there. I don't carry a mobile phone if I care about my location.