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Comment by Gobd

8 hours ago

Nothing can stop the tower equipment manufacturer like Ericsson from knowing the location of your phone and cooperating with advertising or mobile tracking compainies to aggregate that data in useful ways. If you have a phone, people that want your location have it and there is nothing you can do.

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iamnothere  7 hours ago

False. You can:

1) Leave the phone at home

2) Use a phone with a hardware toggle switch that physically kills power to the cell modem, or turn off the phone and put it in a tested Faraday bag

3) Conspire with other citizens to make such location tracking illegal and to enforce that law

I’m tired of privacy doomerism. You have options, use them.

  • aydyn  7 hours ago

    > If you have a phone, people that want your location have it and there is nothing you can do.

    > False. You can: 1) Leave the phone at home

    Then you dont have a phone, do you? Come on you are being pedantic for no reason.

    • iamnothere  7 hours ago

      Not all the time, no. But I can make calls over wifi and forward texts to myself. And nobody’s tracking me. Why would I always need the phone with me?

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  • sib  6 hours ago

    >> Nothing can stop the tower equipment manufacturer like Ericsson from knowing the location of your phone

    > False. You can: > 1) Leave the phone at home

    If you're going to be pedantic, at least be pedantically correct. The tower (and carrier) would still know the location of your phone in that case. (It just wouldn't be with you.)

  • antiframe  7 hours ago

    Also, run an OS that doesn't allow every running process to read your GPS location. And allows you to turn off your cell modem.