Cell phones give GPS location even when they are turned off. And to make matters worse, there is now software available for download to let you turn someone else’s cellphone into a passive listening device.
Somewhat deceptively, some cellphone makes include a “turn off GPS” setting in the menu, but that is downright silly, because your GPS is less determined by your physical phone than it is by triangulation between cellphone towers. The only “official” exception is that all 911 calls automatically send out GPS tracking information.
So all the phone company needs is your unique cellphone identifier, which it must have or it won’t connect you, and it instantly knows where you are.
And the courts have ruled that since your cellphone is a broadcast device, you have no right to privacy over what it transmits and receives.
FWIW, if folks want privacy, they should ditch their cells phones.
“..there is now software available for download to let you turn someone else’s cellphone into a passive listening device.”
Are you SERIOUS?!!!
News like that makes me want to go smash mine to bits.
BUT, it is an iphone....and I love it.
“Cell phones give GPS location even when they are turned off.”
Simple solution.
Remove the battery.
some of the newer model cell phones are that way.
Mine is ten years old. when it is off it is off and I am off the grid!
Some will still ping for hours after the battery is removed by draining a capacitor. Not quite GPS but it will register on the towers.
It’s for the kidnapped children, of course.