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That does practically nothing for your privacy, because you're still connected to the base station tower which keeps logs of your phone roaming between base sta
by izacus 5y ago
That does practically nothing for your privacy, because you're still connected to the base station tower which keeps logs of your phone roaming between base stations. And in more populated areas, the base stations are dense enough to be pretty accurate about where you were.
Requests for cell tower log dumps are very common these days.
The solution here is for governments to ban this kind of bulk data requests without warrant and not for you to fight a losing battle against your own police force.
- lrem 5y agoDisclaimer: I'm a Googler, but thankfully not dealing with any of this. Well, it won't stop the police. But the accuracy is lower, increasing the number of people that match the geofence. That changes the cost-benefit of asking for such a warrant.
- izacus 5y agoIt might be just my eastern european paranoia, but this just makes it easier for the authorities to put you into a place they want you to be, not harder.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoWhich is better depends on if your threat model is them targeting you specifically and then looking for pretexts or them deciding they want to target you specifically when looking through the contents of the dragnet.
- jjoonathan 5y agoI'm sure they can think up an excuse to not let you use your own location data.
- StanislavPetrov 5y ago>The solution here is for governments to ban this kind of bulk data requests without warrant and not for you to fight a losing battle against your own police force. That and a faraday bag.