From Newsgroup: comp.mobile.android
Your Name,
You can put your phone in a farady bag if you don't want to be tracked.
[Snip Youtube link]
Completely pointless buying a mobile phone in the first place
if you're that much of a paranoid delusionist. :-\
Besides the problem that you than won't be able to recieve phonecalls, and that such a phone will drain its battery because it keeps trying to find a phone tower ?
Or that just shutting-down the phone (or possibly putting it into "airplane mode") will solve it just as well ?
Or that what happens is not spying, but *very needed* to get an incoming
call to the phone to the tower the phone is nearest to. Though yes, it
/can/ be abused.
I can only imagine the ruckus the poster will throw when they realise that
the numberplates on their cars can be seen by cops and captured by automated roadside cameras (put there by the city) as well as a number of private
ones. :-)
Or when they realise that paying by credit/debit card does the same - and worse, shows where they /aren't/ (person X has just payed at place Y, which means he is at least Z minutes away from his home/car).
There have been a number of similar messages lately. Some subjectline to catch your eye, above single-line message followed by one-or-more youtube links (which contents are never mentioned). Why now does that scream "clickbait!" to me ?
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
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