If you have to take your cell phone with you when you’re out, leave it powered down.
I usually forget to take mine.
If you have to take your cell phone with you when you’re out, leave it powered down.The weather channel app tracks you.
Your cell phone emits a signal even if it’s turned off and it can still be tracked even if it’s off. You have to remove the battery to avoid being tracked. The other alternative is a Faraday cage/box/pouch which will block signals from (or to) your cell phone.
“If you have to take your cell phone with you when you’re out, leave it powered down.”
Don’t forget the card readers as you walk past the security pylons entering the store. That technology is not exclusive to store entrances.
“If you have to take your cell phone with you when you’re out, leave it powered down.”
You have no clue as to what you are talking about. Powering down your device does ABSOLUTELY nothing to stop your phone from pinging towers.
What you can do, it get a Faraday sleeve that blocks incoming/outgoing signals: https://shop.xiphcyber.com/t/accessories/signal-blocking-bags
While it was true at one point you could turn your phone off AND remove the battery to ensure it’s truly dead, nowadays even with the phone off it will ping towers and there is no way to remove the battery.
As I recall, and I could be mistaken, that feature was added at the request of law enforcement so a particular phone could be tracked if involved in a crime.
This might be a cheaper method.
FasTrak bag
Q: Oh All-knowing Ace of the Asphalt, please say it ain’t so! I’m extremely disappointed that the new FasTrak transponders can’t be switched off and will have to placed in their mylar bag to avoid paying a toll. This bag thing is simply ridiculous, not to mention a dangerous driving distraction. Please use your influence to get the state to wake up on this one.
The FasTrak Transponder | The Toll Roads:
https://thetollroads.com/accounts/fastrak/transponder
FasTrak sticker transponders are the latest in electronic toll collection ... using an agency-provided Mylar® bag is suggested to avoid tolls being charged.