1984 - Govt is going to track everybody, doomed!

[MrMarkyMark]

Is "razzing" legal? Accept in Norfolk where it is compulsary....

It's very important to preserve the purity of the gene pool .

[BrilloPad]

I'm leaving my smartphone at home as an alibi while I'm out razzing around the country lanes with my unregistered PAYG sim phone.

Is "razzing" legal? Accept in Norfolk where it is compulsary....

[Hobosapien]

I'm leaving my smartphone at home as an alibi while I'm out razzing around the country lanes with my unregistered PAYG sim phone.

[SueEllen]

Turn off mobile data when you go a-wandering. Simples. Or leave your phone at home.

Honestly, you lot. Call yourselves techies?

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[Scoobos]

Turn off mobile data when you go a-wandering. Simples. Or leave your phone at home.

Honestly, you lot. Call yourselves techies?

This - I get so many jeers and looks of scorn from the 'newbies' at my work for saying "hold on, while I turn on location services" - then they'll be concerned when they read about privacy issues.

I don't think people understand that you're giving consent to be tracked by consuming these services for free.

[DealorNoDeal]

Or use an 18-year old nokia with an untraceable PAYG sim.

[ladymuck]

Turn off mobile data when you go a-wandering. Simples. Or leave your phone at home.

Honestly, you lot. Call yourselves techies?

Whatever happened to 1G service eh?

[AtW]

Turn off mobile data when you go a-wandering. Simples. Or leave your phone at home. Honestly, you lot. Call yourselves techies?

Turned off phone (with battery inside) is still trackable...

[Mordac]

Turn off mobile data when you go a-wandering. Simples. Or leave your phone at home.

Honestly, you lot. Call yourselves techies?

[AtW]

That’s intentionally done to make you feel relaxed - on reality they know your location in real time up to 30 sm by using chip in your head...

[ladymuck]

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If they're going to do that then they need to work on the accuracy of their Location Service.

All too often it used to think I was teleporting about 20 miles away or would like to show the weather in my location, that location being somewhere in central Europe when I was on the Heathrow Express somewhere between Paddington and Heathrow.

I am constantly having to correct and update my Google Timeline because it simply can't fathom where I am even if I am doing the same home - work - home trip multiple times a week.

And! I don't trust anything they say about privacy.

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[DimPrawn]

[darmstadt]

Google are already tracking you: COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports

[krytonsheep]

UK data
https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobi..._Report_en.pdf

[AtW]

“ Google to track travel habits during pandemic
Google is to publicly track people's movements over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, so that the information can be used by public health officials and others to help manage the outbreak.

The tech firm will publish details of the different types of places people are going to on a county-by-county basis in the UK, as well as similar data for 130 other countries.

The plan is to issue a daily update with the figures referring back to activity from two or three days prior.

The company has promised that individuals' privacy will be preserved.

The readings are based on location data gathered via the Google Maps app or one of the firm's other mobile services.

They will be broken down to reveal how busy some places have been, compared to a period earlier in the year before lockdowns were introduced.”

Coronavirus: US daily deaths reach new peak - BBC News

On it’s just Google, that’s fine then