My cars are 60, 20, and 17 years old. My cell phone is 19 years old(Nokia 5190). I'm 70. All they have to do is wait me out. I'm not worth tracking.
Woody
Woody
There are some apps you can't turn off location services. Find My Iphone is one.yes. it's amazing the amount of information stored that involved other things than just 'location services' (which doesn't mean your phone doesn't record your location, but what info it shares with the app, IIRC)
i suspect this issue will continue to be a perplexing legal issue since it's not settled regarding what information the .gov can collect from carriers without warrants.
I got a flyer from my insurance company about a discount we can "earn" if we allow the company to collect driving data. All we have to do - it's SO easy - is to download an app, connect it to the Bluetooth beacon so considerately provided by the company, and that's it. For a few bucks off our premium, we can let the insurance company track our vehicle's movements. How nice of them to give us such an easy discount, right??
Nope. Not gonna sign away my privacy.
Have any of you folks received such a spurious offer?
FFIW, if you drive with your phone in your car then there are probably several apps tracking your location without compensating you at all.
There are ways to kill ANY location tracking on an active phone if you have the correct (root) access. I can set my location in the middle of the pacific and laugh all the way around the country. At times I just turn it on and leave it in the middle of canada for the fun of it.
The same little bit of information they can get out of that they can likely get out of the older cell phones. And they are turning off the older service on a lot of the networks very soon anyway so those old phones will not work for much longer anyway.You don't have root on the RTOS in the cell radio. There's often a cute little ARM core in the baseband processor, running, well, who knows?
The same little bit of information they can get out of that they can likely get out of the older cell phones. And they are turning off the older service on a lot of the networks very soon anyway so those old phones will not work for much longer anyway.
Yep. AT&T 2G GSM networks will be shut down in a few weeks (Dec 31st). This means more than just AT&T phones. Cricket, GoPhone, Straight Talk, and Tracfone, to name a few, all have GSM phones that run on AT&T's network. Upgrade your phones if you have any of the older ones.
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