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
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
There are some apps you can't turn off location services. Find My Iphone is one.
I was referencing the apps that track your buying and selling as well as some of the navigation apps.
Some like Walmart and lowes apps want your location so they can track your buying as well give local pricing.
Amazon has to be the worst. Click on a product to look at and they follow you all over the internet.
BTW, the government can turn on your location services with warrants, and even listen to conversations. Pulling the battery is the only way to be totally private.
AT&T Gigapower used to give discounts if they could spy on you. They spy on your internet browsing, and you got a $30/mo discount. Don't want the spying? Pay the $30/mo.
But no, I would not install their app, or plug their thing in to the car.
Yup. And if you have a smart phone, carriers sell some of your location data for traffic management purposes.
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.
As far as the tracking it all sucks and it is only going to get worse. The liberals have no problem with it all since they feel it may protect something at some point in time. I am surprised that when you are born they don't have your parents selling your soul to the them to use as they see fit yet.
As far as the tracking it all sucks and it is only going to get worse. The liberals have no problem with it all since they feel it may protect something at some point in time. I am surprised that when you are born they don't have your parents selling your soul to the them to use as they see fit yet.
Have some fun. Set it to Moscow and DC alternatively. Let us know when they come knocking on your door! (I'd do it, but my Nokia 5190 is not capable.)
Woody
Woody
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?
If y'all weren't doing anything wrong then you shouldn't care. (eyeroll)
Wal Mart collects 2.5 pedabytes EVERY HOUR of unstructured data.
Apple is getting pretty creepy. They can track you to the inch in some places. They then relay that info to the store they know you are at, in real time, and possibly send you a coupon for the thing they know you are looking at. Or possibly do something else with that info.
Wal Mart collects 2.5 pedabytes EVERY HOUR of unstructured data.
Apple is getting pretty creepy. They can track you to the inch in some places. They then relay that info to the store they know you are at, in real time, and possibly send you a coupon for the thing they know you are looking at. Or possibly do something else with that info.
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.
About stinkin time. Since they refused to put an option in that allows me to not use 2g network. Haven't had it happen with my new phone, but my iPhone 4s would grab the 2G when 3G/4G was weak, and wouldn't let go, I'd have to turn it to airplane and back to get it to resync. I'd rather have had no reception than that stupid 2G connection.
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