[Jumper]

A warrant... So if I am your Fed, State, or local law enforcement might I utilize multiple mobile or fixed "phone antenna" to pick up your location, which would not require going to the PTTs? And might I listen in on what you say whether it is turned on or off? Dare say might I as Law Enforcement also track vehicles, combining phones with vehicles to question ownership for traffic stops... or the repeated proximity of said vehicles and phones together with other vehicles and phones to determine where you shop for drugs, sex, or robbery?

Now add your computer, your phone, your vehicle, your aftermarket GPS, even your old TV or radio antennas to the mix to locate people, track their movement, to prove their collusion in drug deals, prostitution, politically motivated riots or membership in Antifata, etc.

This is why after working for the USG in certain fields I never use a phone without a battery that can be removed, and I keep an old vehicle without OnStar or GPS.

[Ancesthntr]

“This is why after working for the USG in certain fields I never use a phone without a battery that can be removed, and I keep an old vehicle without OnStar or GPS. “

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This is good advice for anyone, whether or not you know that you engage in criminal activities (and I assume that most here don’t - not intentionally), simply because there are so many “crimes” on the books that we ALL violate some, just about every single day.

The “Man” is not your friend, no matter how much the individual officers may be (and usually are) thoroughly decent people. What they are like personally is very different from what their job may require them to become.