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Does anyone have a Faraday bag for phone that works? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I'm not selling dope, I just don't need Google knowing everywhere I went on the way to the doctor's office, where I'll probably sit and look at cat videos in the waiting room. I have anxiety and I can't stand surveillance like this constantly.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Have you tried risk management instead? You can turn off your cellular network, wifi network, and Bluetooth. Hell, you can just toggle on air plane mode. This should theoretically turn off GPS too.

    If this isn’t enough management then you’re suspecting that the OS is somehow keeping track of you or there’s some firmware that is bypassing OS controls to track you. Unless you are doing something highly illegal or you are someone highly important, I highly doubt this is the case.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Last I checked airplane mode does not disable GPS as it is a passive service. The phone will track your movement and then send it all next time you connect.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    You must know something I don’t.

    AFAIK, GPS works by fetching signals from satellites.

    If you disable your Bluetooth/wifi antenna, you won’t know your relative location to other devices. If you disable your cellular antenna, you won’t know your relative location to cell towers. I presume that you would need some of that data to know your position relative to satellites but maybe I’m missing something. Maybe it receives data from satellites directly? Seems unlikely

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yes, GPS works by measuring your distance from several GPS satellites (based on the timing of the signals they send). If a few distances are known, it narrows it down to a point (the satellite orbits are known so you know where they are at any time).

    I've owned several stand-alone GPS receivers before phones started to include the feature.

    You can download offline maps to phones so that you can navigate without any phone signal.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    De Google your phone if your that paranoid. Switch to Apple if unable to degoogle phone.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    It can't be degoogled without gettung stuck in a boot loop.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    surely it would be more cost effective to buy a degoogled phone and sell your current one?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    I am checking on that. It took a while for me to find an option. It expensive, but at least it is not Snoople or Samsux. I swear my firewall swats down google constantly. They hit me over and over and over again. And I wonder why my electricity bill is through the roof.

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