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Is there anything in iOS that can protect against this?
by brookhaven_dude 8y ago
Is there anything in iOS that can protect against this?
- mpol 8y agoNo, it is outside of the Operating System. This happens at a lower level, in the firmware of the chips with GPS and modem. Every 5 seconds your location data is sent to the cell tower. Even if you turn off all your connections and GPS, it will still happen anyway, it will only be presented as off to your Operating System.
- redbeard0x0a 8y agoAdditionally, even if you could turn off GPS and other data services (i.e. a flip phone or similar) that data is still collected because you are always connected to a physical tower that has a physical location. So looking at these records, your location can be inferred, as well as all your usage data can be aggregated together and sold.
- Retric 8y agoWithout GPS the data is vastly less accurate and thus less valuable.
- craftyguy 8y agoSomeone needs to make faraday cage phone cases. When you want to use radio services, you slide open the back. When you are done, you slide it closed!
- confounded 8y agoI’ve of heard such “faraday pouches”, I assume they exist. I find it very unsatisfying that the phone in the pouch would be ramping up its radios to try and reach a tower, running its battery down. I much prefer the approach of the Librem 5: put the whole baseband board on it’s own circuit, and have a hardware kill switch for power to the whole thing. On WiFi? Not using it? Turn it off!
- craftyguy 8y agoThe librem5 approach is definitely superior. I can't wait to receive mine!
- givinguflac 8y agoUnfortunately not really besides airplane mode. iOS 12 helps but still doesn’t solve the baseband side trust issues.
- dawnerd 8y agoWas just wondering the same. What can we do as consumers? Trying to get laws changed is almost impossible and we don't really have much of a choice in providers. Even the smaller companies just resell att/verizon/tmobile.