What you are referring to will be optin and it is not related to positioning tracking.
And no, I will not trade in my smart phone.
If you do not need it, don’t take it with you. I would imagine someone will soon come up with tech to fool GPS, too.
I already have an app: NOVID. It’s pretty useless so far. No one except me and my wife seem to have it. When I installed it, both our phones reflected a contact immediately. Since then no contacts at all after about 3 weeks.
But let’s be honest. I’m not worried about the government or anyone else stealing my data with this app. I’m happy to use it until the COVID thing passes. It would be nice though if I were not the only one.
My only smartphone was assigned from work. I am not going to take it with me as often. Best not to be reliant on such things.
Get a faraday case for your phone.
The “Right to Privacy” is part of CA Constitution.
Unless CA wants a 200M people as part of a class action lawsuit, it would be unwise of them to go further.
What Google and Apple are doing is simply making it possible to use these apps. They aren’t installing the app on your phone. If you want the app you will need to install it yourself.
I keep my phone in a Faraday bag. Nothing gets in or out until I decide. Messaging and emails will keep trying to get thru, buffering at your ISP until your phone pings a tower. Once you remove it from the Velcro enclosed bag it takes about a minute to ping a tower and receive data. Do what you need with your phone and then put it back in the bag. Just like that, poof! It disappears.
Contact tracing has been around for over 50 years. The APIs are already in place in iOS and Android. But so far nobody has an app. Which you would have to download. And they revolve around bluetooth. Really people, got enough problems in the world without you trying to get paranoid over nothing.
Out of ALL of the little Red Dots showing where I've been for MONTHS....
The ONLY location tagged with a location name…..Reads:
"Was at XYZ Armory Retail Shop and indoor Shooting Range."
My last flip phone had GPS, and that was likely a decade ago. It was mandated for 911 support.
Turn location off, turn Airplane mode on, then hit Off.
I use an old flip-top. It doesn’t function well with new tech updates. I take a lot of heat because of it. I don’t care.