Given the prevalence of geofence warrants nowadays, I don’t think the situation needs to be especially nefarious in nature. Perhaps you don’t want to be scrutinized just because you and 370 others were within 300 yards of a crime occurring?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/16/geofence-war...

My understanding is the power off tracking uses NFC. This is encrypted. If Apple’s documentation is to be believed, the location information cannot be decrypted by law enforcement.

Every situation, but I was trying to frame it more softly because I was expecting a large percentage of these comments to say "I don't just not mind being tracked, I want it now!" and similar thoughts.

The Find My network is designed to not allow Apple to track you using it.

What situation are you happy to let your location data be sold? Will you give the rest of us your location data?

All of them.

Then leave the phone at home. Because knowing which cell a cellular phone is in, is how it works:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking

Or use a case that functions as a Faraday cage.