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If you have to have a phone to pay for things like parking or for proof of vaccination status, then you have to carry a locator beacon that can be tracked, and
by Telemakhos 4y ago
If you have to have a phone to pay for things like parking or for proof of vaccination status, then you have to carry a locator beacon that can be tracked, and your movements can be recorded. Who records them (Google, Apple, someone else) is irrelevant; the record can be requisitioned by your government or a Five Eyes partner at the touch of a few buttons. Your locator beacon comes with handy built-in cameras and microphones, and it probably has speech-to-text capability on chip if you have a recent model. Also it's reading your mail and texts and encrypted chats, and you browse the web on it, so it potentially knows a lot about you. Good thing you can trust it not to spy on you.
- nijave 4y agoYou can carry a phone and leave it turned off most of the time. Unless you're paying only in cash, your electronic payments can be traced anyway
- StanislavPetrov 4y agoTurning off a spy-phone does nothing to prevent them from tracking you. You need to either take the battery out (impossible with most spy-phones) or use a faraday bag.
- userbinator 4y agoDoes Airplane Mode not do anything? AFAIK it could be a violation of FCC regulations if it was still transmitting or receiving with that enabled.
- Izkata 4y agoAirplane mode is only a convenience switch. My phone lets me turn wifi back on with airplane mode still active, for example.