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iamnothereyesterday at 9:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

False. You can:

1) Leave the phone at home

2) Use a phone with a hardware toggle switch that physically kills power to the cell modem, or turn off the phone and put it in a tested Faraday bag

3) Conspire with other citizens to make such location tracking illegal and to enforce that law

I’m tired of privacy doomerism. You have options, use them.


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aydynyesterday at 10:01 PM

> If you have a phone, people that want your location have it and there is nothing you can do.

> False. You can: 1) Leave the phone at home

Then you dont have a phone, do you? Come on you are being pedantic for no reason.

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sibyesterday at 11:08 PM

>> Nothing can stop the tower equipment manufacturer like Ericsson from knowing the location of your phone

> False. You can: > 1) Leave the phone at home

If you're going to be pedantic, at least be pedantically correct. The tower (and carrier) would still know the location of your phone in that case. (It just wouldn't be with you.)

antiframeyesterday at 10:02 PM

Also, run an OS that doesn't allow every running process to read your GPS location. And allows you to turn off your cell modem.