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The thing is, you should be able to carry your phone with you everywhere and not be spied on 😑
...I once advocated turning the power off...
...now I doubt if that helps...
Leave your phone at home. Enjoy the outdoors without distraction. Is how I roll.
People forgot that all the characters , with their communicators , in Star Trek were in the Military and on call 24/7/365.
So here we are.
It helps very little. People even have ways to sometimes access a phone, under the right conditions, where the battery has been completely removed.
"It helps very little. "
...the darn thing is always pinging...
I actually did some research on this for a book I wrote a few years ago.
A fully powered off phone (not locked, not asleep, not in airplane mode) is generally not trackable in real time. When it's shut down, the cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS radios are off, apps aren’t running, and the phone isn't pinging towers.
What causes confusion is that most people never actually power their phones down. A locked phone or one in airplane mode can still transmit if Wi-Fi or Bluetooth is enabled. That’s not the same thing as being off.
Turning a phone off also does nothing to erase history data. Carriers, apps, and platforms may still have past location records.
For normal civilian use, power off means no live phone-based tracking. There are some very special nation-state tracking scenarios where some phones can still be traced even when they're fully powered off, but I don't know how, exactly. The stuff I found in my research was very vague on that (for obvious reasons) and I didn't need that type of info for my story and I didn't want to send out any more red flags than I already had with my searches, so I didn't go down that rabbit hole.
So you were right that powering off was important. I think for 96.93%* of the population that still applies today.
*All numbers are completely fabricated. 😁
"I actually did some research on this for a book I wrote a few years ago."
...faraday bags work too...
...compelling material...
God bless you for your participation.
Very good point. Yes, those work exceptionally well to block signals.
if they're going to listen to me talk they're gonna listen to me poop
“Hey wiretap, give me a recipe for Christmas cookies”
WANT TO GET THE "OTHER HALF" HOT UNDER THE COLLAR....
Very Sick Mind here: when it's from the "other half's" number, play "Glory, Glory, Alleluia....Drives them insane!!!!!!! The ASS-CHEWIN' will be WELL WORTH IT!!!!!!
OHHHHH mY!!!!!!! In this Christmas Season, Be kind to your wives!!!!!! Just sayin'!!!!!!!
I am seriously contemplating ditching the cell phone and going back to a analog land line and an answering machine. I read many years ago an article witch stated the East German Stazi ( which made the only way to prosper was to spill the beans on your neighbor for your government reward) would given their eye teeth for just a fraction of the data that we now pay monthly for the privilege to be spied upon.
Good luck. I tried to go back to analog line - no carriers provide them anymore. All have gone to service thru internet companies in my little area. If no electric, no phone. If no wifi, no phone.
Only if you put youself on their radar.
What was it that Ted Kaczynski warned us about again?