Posted on 10/04/2023 2:42:11 AM PDT by davikkm
“i leave my phone at home more often than not.”
Smart. I drive alone on backroads of TN, and there have been a few times when having my cell was important. Even critical once.
I’m watching older TV series, pre-smart phones. I really miss the simplicity of the old basic flip phones when I see them being used.
“not with an iPhone.”
The subject was “droid”.
Well today is the day they will be testing the emergency alert system.
So. My phone is off and I will put the turned off phone in a steel safe.
Think that will confuse them?
You’re still pinging off of the towers. You’re just not sharing data with aps.
Get a Faraday bag, and turn off your phone when not in use if you’re concerned.
Better yet, get a burner phone.
lol…I have a faraday birthday x I should put mine in.
I have an IPhone and all government alerts turned off so I’m excited to see if it works.
Mine is on charge right now. It goes in the safe in a few minutes. We’ll see if it works.
Yes, i agree to that. I loved and miss my flip phone, with the pull up antenae.
“Red Alert for Android Users: Google Gives Police Your Identification If Police Say You Were Near a Crime”
It’s a safe bet that Google also tells police exactly who was near a crime.
Fourth Amendment to the Constitution: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
We need a new amendment to the Constitution making it clear that government using private parties to spy on citizens is unconstitutional.
“They also do. But if Google collects it (and you know they do), the can have a warrant issued for it as well.”
A warrant, LOL. You’re so ‘yesterday’. Today it’s a phone call (or email).
Turning off location data removes your access to the data so you can no longer see your location. Google is still collecting it if you use any of the google services such as maps, calendar, etc. Google android, as do most apps, are using the google services framework, google play services and google play all of which report and track your location.
Once, as an experiment, I left the phone untouched for a day and left a firewall blocking all google domains to see what it would do. Google Play and google services framework made 3422 attempts to contact the google mothership with data in a day. That is roughly every 30 seconds. Even with location off, it was sending data such as what apps were used, data from where they were used, updates to contacts, calendar data, maps data. Google tracks you always and at all times. That is the price of using their apps and services.
If you want to use android and remain untracked, buy a pixel and use/install grapheneOS,a hardened and secure android build with no google. Otherwise live with them always tracking you.
Bwahahahaha, who cares? My phone never leaves my pocket, screw all y’all
My phone is connected to my smartwatch is connected to my Amazon Fire TVs and DirecTV satellites.
I dont live in fear of my phone!!!!! hysterical conspiracy nutcases make me laugh.
Come and get me coppers, I got nothing to hide.
Beotches
These days you could leave your phone at home, go commit a crime, and use the fact that your phone was NOT near the scene of the crime as an alibi.
“These days you could leave your phone at home, go commit a crime, and use the fact that your phone was NOT near the scene of the crime as an alibi.”
Perhaps, but they’ll get you with the License Plate cameras if you drive to the scene, and with regular video monitoring if you take any other form of transportation, other than perhaps a taxi in NYC (and who knows regarding that, these days).
It will be an interesting experiment.
Now, if mine is turned off all day and it is in solid steel cabinet in a weak signal area; will they miss my phone?
Or will it instantly phone home to them the first time I return it to service?
I really hate cell phones. For ID purposes, I do need one.
“Perhaps, but they’ll get you with the License Plate cameras if you drive to the scene, and with regular video monitoring if you take any other form of transportation, other than perhaps a taxi in NYC (and who knows regarding that, these days).”
My comment was a joke but you’re right; with the number of surveillance cameras these days I don’t know how anybody gets away with anything.
Yeah, every time I pull a heist I leave it at home. it’s just common sense. And I read it in “Idiots Guide to Stealing For a Living”.
Post it yourself, lazy.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.