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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

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Re: Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

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I am not trying to push conspiracy theories here. But IF its possible for law enforcement to ping your phone when its on standby, dont you think its possible that it can be pinged whilst on airplane mode too? If you are using it on wifi its game over anyway, hard internet connections are easy to track by law enforcement via ip and ISP. Even if you use a VPN your device is still connected to the wifi and can be pinged…

> But IF its possible for law enforcement to ping your phone when its on standby, dont you think its possible that it can be pinged whilst on airplane mode too? We do not need to wonder, because this is a physics problem and we have science. Radio waves are easy to measure. There have been plenty of experiments with putting phones in faraday chambers with SDRs proving a phone in airplane mode does not emit any cellul…

Like I said, you keep ignoring wifi. If you dont want your device to be completely useless, you need to connect it somehow. Both Radio and Wifi are easily trackable, so to circle round to the original point turning off radio tracking on your device and 'turning it into a wifi tablet' does not stop you being tracked.

Re: Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

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All over southern California and Nevada, facial recognition cameras have been put up aiming all four directions at most surface street intersections. It’s also illegal to sell new cars without a cell modem in them. The phones are the least of our worries.

Which jurisdiction is it illegal to sell new cars without a cell modem?

EU, middle east. I was mistaken that it’s not in the US yet (but all modern US cars ship with them anyway).
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