The carriers have your location data on a dumbphone - only the carriers (certainly not Google) - and that's all the data they have. In addition, I can take the

The carriers have your location data on a dumbphone - only the carriers (certainly not Google) - and that's all the data they have. In addition, I can take the battery out of my dumb phone any time and all their ability to track my location goes away. My dumb phone doesn't have apps and doesn't have wi-fi, which means my data isn't being harvested by every company with an app and every passing wi-fi hotspot. Certainly you'd do better not to carry a phone at all but its just wrong to claim that "the same data" is available (and being broadcast) by your dumb phone.