>Effectively leaving it at home? Once you unwrap it at your destination, haven't you not only given up your travel history (maybe not to an intermediate locatio

>Effectively leaving it at home? Once you unwrap it at your destination, haven't you not only given up your travel history (maybe not to an intermediate location), but also flagged yourself as someone that is hiding something? For me the utility in having a cell phone is the convenience. If my car breaks down or if I get a page on my 1-way pager that I deem important enough to call back then giving a random datapoint of my location is a conscious decision that I can make. This is vastly different than creating and offering up a record of everywhere I go to the government, the phone company and all of the 3rd parties along the way that hoover up my info as I pass by. >but also flagged yourself as someone that is hiding something? Or someone that values their privacy. >I guess my point is, you can't hide yourself from the government this way. The government can track you with satellites, helicopters or simply park someone outside your house and follows you every time you go out if they so choose, and there isn't much you can do about it. What you can do is refuse to voluntarily input all of your movements and activities into a massive database that can be accessed, retrieved and data-mined at will.