This is why you can no longer remove batteries. Remember we use to be able to swap out batteries in our phones. Government and phone companies did not like this. Customers would keep phones longer and just buy new batteries. Privacy advocates could pop the batteries out of their phones when they wanted Privacy. Now the batteries are welded into the phones. ALL FOR YOUR BENEFIT. really, it just everyone has their own personal tracking device. Think of it this way, pull up a cattle auction. Look at all the cattle with giant yellow tags stapled onto their heads. THIS IS US, THIS IS YOU. YOU ARE NOTHING BUT CATTLE U.S.549157-11 AND YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A PRODUCT. this steer has slaved away 30+ years as a wage slave netting millions in tax revenues. Note he has paid more in taxes than he has ever earned in his lifetime. Their is only a few years of taxable revenue left in this unit.