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Android, iOS beam telemetry to Google, Apple even when you tell them not to – study

Sherrie Ludwig

Non technical person has a question

If one is either somewhere that one did not want known (for reasons varying from simple privacy to paranoia to criminality) can one simply turn the phone off until needed? Or, if that is not enough, is there a box analogous to a Faraday cage that could be used to store the phone in until needed? So, the phone would "stop showing up" on cell tower data, then "show up again" later? Or are people are too used to carrying the phone to simply leave it at home, do the crime/visit the secret paramour/just want to not be tracked, then come home and pick up the phone again?

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