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Or you could just leave your cell phone at home when you're going on clandestine missions.

• sswam 16y ago
  In many countries, simply posting an article against the government / regime as I might do could put me at risk of persecution. If I ever turn my phone on at all, I am adding to my location history in these systems. These systems operate by tracking _everyone_ who uses a cell phone, and movement history is recorded for everyone by default. The people committing surveillance have access to information about my family, friends, favorite restaurant, places of business, whether I have ever masturbated in a public rest-room, the hours of the day when I am awake, and when and how I travel; and the same information is available for every other mobile phone user. Oh - he drives to work on the freeway and parks his car here, so let's put a bomb in it. I feel it's not an acceptable risk to publish or allow people, especially government agencies, to view my location history. Some people do already give this information to Google and/or Apple. I'm not too paranoid but I think they must be ignorant or crazy to do that. In the last ten years, our governments (Australia, UK and USA) have committed acts of war which I strongly oppose. If military conscription were introduced again, I would not cooperate. I don't want the authorities - which may not always be benevolent - to have such a very great power over me which comes from knowing my every move and my every contact.