Also my droid allows me to turn location data off, and i have. I also turn emergency alert signals off. We will see today if that works.
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I wonder how that works. Sure you can shut location data off on the phone, but isn’t your phone still going to be pinging a cell tower anyway? I know the phone isn’t supposed to be giving location data, but I would imagine that you’re still sending signals to and from nearby towers, and I don’t know that what phones ping what towers is monitored; but I can’t help but wonder if it is regardless.
“my droid allows me to turn location data off”
That’s a placebo. A few years ago someone (maybe John Stossel) did a test. He turned off location, and even powered off the phone, and then went on with his day.
Then he had a techy person get a printout of his day. It was perfect, and even so precise that it showed when it appeared he stepped out of a car.
The explanation was that even though the main battery is disabled, there’s another battery always on. It’s the one that maintains time and date, and apparently other things like some location data.
Youโre being tracked no matter what you doโฆthat how Google makes $$$$!!
Iโm sure Apple does it as wellโฆ.even when your phone is turned off it is still searchableโฆFWIW
My android settings don’t allow the federal alert to be turned off.
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.