You can choose not to carry a cellphone, but sometimes you have to use your car which has a lot of the same "features" as a cellphone. How can you disable all that stuff on a car?
US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
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Re: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
#22I never turn location services on and I run on mobile data (rather than WiFi) almost every moment of the day. My location was correctly determined within the specified range. sigh Ridiculous.
Turning off cell reception might mitigate it. They seem to use cell triangulation to determine where you are. But maybe also other techniques. That way to locate someone has been possible basically since the beginning of mobile phones - even before internet usage became a thing.
Re: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
#23Is there anyone from EFF here take notice ?
Re: US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
#24Can someone with a US phone see if this try-before-you-buy page works? https://www.locationsmart.com/try/ It would be fucking unbelievable if you were able to track any US phone number like that, no ID, no court order.
Works on my Canadian phone