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How does turning on wifi enable better phone location tracking?
NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: cdev on January 02, 2021, 02:45:25 pm ---What I am trying to say is, if you have a phone, and use it, you really don't have privacy any more, the way things are going. Corporations have that data, sell it and soon, if they haven't already will probably have legal rights to it written into treaties and so on.
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Pretty sure that has been the case since the first cell phones, the networks have to know where the phone is in order for it to work. What has changed is the increase in other mechanisms for tracking, but those are significantly easier to defeat/spoof (without losing key functionality) since your device doesn't rely on it to work.
I would say the first step is to use an adblocker in order to cut off much of the tracking revenue. Using alternatives where practical is also a good idea. Feeding junk data is the final touch, but by this point, it's more about protecting others.
cdev:
People have become products, which corporations are getting rights to sell info on.
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