Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search

Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by thebean11 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:11PM (#21777116)

Is it though? Pretty hard to live without mobile data, let alone texting and calling outside of a WiFi hotspot

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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by JohnFen on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:42PM (#21777390)

It depends on your needs. Right now, I use very nearly zero mobile data with my smartphone -- 99.9% of the time, if I need internet access then I'm within range of a WiFi AP I can use. Texting and phone calls, as well as mobile data, can be done with a feature phone that allows tethering.

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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by fwip on Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:57PM (#21778776)

Won't the cops just track you by your feature phone location?

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Re:Google Gives Feds 1,500 Phone Locations in Unprecedented ... by JohnFen on Friday December 13, 2019 @12:17PM (#21783423)

If they want to, sure. But that's not a threat vector that I'm really worried about -- and should that be a concern for some reason, I can always yank the battery.

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