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I am all for removing this needless communication the manufacturers are equipping cars with now, but between your cell phone associating with towers, the Flock
by EvanAnderson 1y ago
I am all for removing this needless communication the manufacturers are equipping cars with now, but between your cell phone associating with towers, the Flock cameras that every municipality has eagerly deployed, the repo bounty people driving parking lots with LPRs, and LEOs with on-car LPRs you're still being tracked.
Still, no reason to make it easier.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y agoIt can all be fought. https://deflock.me/ https://deflock.me/ I keep my phone in Airplane Mode. Can't do a ton about private ALPRs except put peanut butter on them or whatever when you see em
- Sayrus 1y agoI remember reading that (some?) phones in airplane mode can still be pinged by the network to request their location and the call is answered directly by the blackbox modem rather than by Android/iOS bypassing most privacy features. Airplane mode also usually keeps Bluetooth and WiFi enabled so that's one thing to look for.
- derwiki 1y agoThere’s always Faraday cage bags for cell phones
- kube-system 1y agoYeah, they don't work though. They're about as effective as those signal-boosting stickers you could get at truck stops in the 00s.
- derwiki 1y agoReally? I used to have one and it always killed my battery looking for signal. It also prevented me from making calls to the phone.
- immibis 1y agoAirplane mode usually turns off the power to that chip.
- Sayrus 1y agoI found this for GrapheneOS / Pixel devices which seems to support this claim: https://grapheneos.org/faq https://grapheneos.org/faq > Activating airplane mode will fully disable the cellular radio transmit and receive capabilities I am very interested if you have more information on this or specification on whether airplane mode has to disable power to the chip.