The new security feature makes it more difficult for police and malicious hackers to obtain a person's precise location data from a cell phone company.
Got an appointment somewhere? Yeah, I’ll take my old unused cellphone with me the one with no SIM card in it and no user account that’s got my actual name in, and use it on wifi only but will at least have a camera on my person that I can use if shit gets real. Even better, leave it off until you are close to your destination, then turn it on so there’s not even a fingerprint of your home IP address on it.
Gonna hafta go back to acting like it’s 1990 and I’ve still got the landline. Phone’s at home, I can check my voicemail when I get back, just like I used to check my answering machine. Sorry Mr. Authoritarian… was at home all day, don’t know what you are on about…
I think a lot of the assumptions on the part of these assholes is that people are incapable of pivoting to modes of public engagement that negate the effectiveness of their data mining and surveillance tech WRT people’s devices.
Old school man… Really go undercover and just have a digital camera with a good lens and use it from a distance and keep an escape route always in mind for when it does go sideways. Keep a few spare full size SD cards on hand and use a micro SD card in an adapter so it’s easier to swap out and hide if it looks like you can’t slip away easy.
Think Soviet dissident levels of subterfuge at this point…
This is why situational awareness is critical.
Got an appointment somewhere? Yeah, I’ll take my old unused cellphone with me the one with no SIM card in it and no user account that’s got my actual name in, and use it on wifi only but will at least have a camera on my person that I can use if shit gets real. Even better, leave it off until you are close to your destination, then turn it on so there’s not even a fingerprint of your home IP address on it.
Gonna hafta go back to acting like it’s 1990 and I’ve still got the landline. Phone’s at home, I can check my voicemail when I get back, just like I used to check my answering machine. Sorry Mr. Authoritarian… was at home all day, don’t know what you are on about…
I think a lot of the assumptions on the part of these assholes is that people are incapable of pivoting to modes of public engagement that negate the effectiveness of their data mining and surveillance tech WRT people’s devices.
Old school man… Really go undercover and just have a digital camera with a good lens and use it from a distance and keep an escape route always in mind for when it does go sideways. Keep a few spare full size SD cards on hand and use a micro SD card in an adapter so it’s easier to swap out and hide if it looks like you can’t slip away easy.
Think Soviet dissident levels of subterfuge at this point…