NC to use cell phone tracking data during lockdown...

And people think this is the land of the free.

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Compliance....from the same damn people that get to decide who, what is essential.

I am getting absolutely pissed off about this and madder that there is nothing ONE can do about it.

Last I looked, we are a nation/state of laws, not rules and recommendations
 
Just how accurate is the tracking? I think I remember GPS is + or - 3 ft so just how precise can this actually be?
 
Me. said:
GPS is much more accurate than 3 ft.

But that’s not what is being tracked. They aren’t looking at how close you are to others.

They are looking at where you visit now, vs where you normally go.


It’s Google’s data, for everyone who takes the default on an Android or Google Maps, and allows storage of your travels.


They take info like.... where you normally are M-F 9-5, and compare it to where you’ve been lately. This thread title and the article title is misleading. NC has no access to data of where you are. They have access (as do you) to a state-by-state PDF of movement trends.
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So the moral of the story is, leave the damn phones at home and go about your business. I used to get along just fine without a cell phone. Should just start doing it again
 
guess what
I can't even keep my phone on when I want to because it's still on the original battery from about 5 years ago. Good look tracking my grumpy butt without suddenly believing in human teleportation.
 
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Mike Overlay said:
Compliance....nothing ONE can do about it.

Last I looked, we are a nation/state of laws, not rules and recommendations
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Key point, ONE.


The time is rapidly approaching that we need to stop being ONE and become one.

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Me. said:
No, the moral of the story is that you’re not being tracked during the lockdown any more (or less) than you were before the lockdown.

And no one is looking at the data in anywhere near real time.
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I would think that the moral of the story is that the government is using technology to track peoples movements without their consent. But maybe that’s just me. Well I since you’re me.
 
Mike Overlay said:
Compliance....from the same damn people that get to decide who, what is essential.

I am getting absolutely pissed off about this and madder that there is nothing ONE can do about it.

Last I looked, we are a nation/state of laws, not rules and recommendations
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Put your phone in a faraday bag when you're not using it.
 
Chdamn said:
I would think that the moral of the story is that the government is using technology to track peoples movements without their consent. But maybe that’s just me. Well I since you’re me.
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Oh you consented somewhere in those 5,000 lines of words words words that you didn’t read when you renewed your phone plan...or downloaded such and such app.
 
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Mike Overlay said:
So the moral of the story is, leave the damn phones at home and go about your business. I used to get along just fine without a cell phone. Should just start doing it again
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I have been known to wander out without a phone. And go places where ignorant public workers have put up signs saying no firearms allowed. Oh, I am a real bad, dangerous pirate huh? :D
 
Democrats won't hesitate to use the lower overall death rates to mandate that everyone that can work from home be required to work from home.
Bernie would go a step further and manage the permanent closure of all businesses that were deemed not essential during this crap. After all he, Yang, and AOC want to tax all nonessential businesses out of business.

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Faraday bag and done. Take it out when you need to call.
 
Chdamn said:
I would think that the moral of the story is that the government is using technology to track peoples movements without their consent. But maybe that’s just me. Well I since you’re me.
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No, the government is not tracking you. It's private companies that are tracking and selling the data. Just to be clear the data is sold to more then just the government.
 
Oneofsix said:
Mebbe the Great Lakes people just left their phones at home.

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Nah. I used to be an Illinoisian. They're way too accustomed to complying with government and many believe the government knows better. They're quite compliant by nature. That's why their government sucks so bad.
 
Dave951 said:
Faraday bag and done. Take it out when you need to call.
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I honestly think this is a major reason so many phones have internal batteries that you can't get to anymore. GPS and govt systems work even when the phone is "off" (and they have admitted they can still track you when you've powered down). In the old days you could just unclip the battery and be safe from intrusion. Now you have to do a power down that only soft reboots the interface but not the tracking, then spend 5 minutes booting it back up afterwards. how does solid state take so freaking long?

FYI, just a faraday bag won't help. the accelerometers could probably dead reckon your position at least as well as the GPS, maybe better since the GPS relies on external signals that can be blocked, while dead reckoning doesn't.
 
1)- Don’t use a droid phone/tablet.
Apple’s not on privacy’s side, but they have shown they keep your info much more private than g00gle=Do Evil
2)- Don’t load any g00gle apps on you apple product Gmaps, Wayz, Gearth, etc.
3)- Does an aluminum foil wrap, or a steel ammo can work as a faraday cage?
4)- Pull out your old, receive only, GPS units for driving if needed.
 
Does anyone know if a phone has accelerometers running in the background? Now I'm curious about it.

Just an FYI, one of my sons is involved in some secret squirrel stuff from time to time in the USAF and when they have meetings, they don't carry ANYTHING into the room. All phones, devices, stuff in your pockets, Ipads, etc, go into a Faraday cage outside that is heavily RF shielded and that's before they get anywhere near the actual door. Any notes you need to take while in the room are left in the room as is the pencil you wrote them with. The room is usually a secure internal one with no windows and also completely RF and I'd imagine shielded against other stuff. They're pretty serious about security.
 
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1)- Don’t use a droid phone/tablet.
Apple’s not on privacy’s side, but they have shown they keep your info much more private than g00gle=Do Evil
2)- Don’t load any g00gle apps on you apple product Gmaps, Wayz, Gearth, etc.
3)- Does an aluminum foil wrap, or a steel ammo can work as a faraday cage?
4)- Pull out your old, receive only, GPS units for driving if needed.
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It's simple to test if something is Faraday cage or not. Turn it on. Toss it in the ammo box or whatever. Call it. If it rings, it's still talking to the outside world.
 
Timfoilhat said:
Nah. I used to be an Illinoisian. They're way too accustomed to complying with government and many believe the government knows better. They're quite compliant by nature. That's why their government sucks so bad.
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I was being mostly facetious- I grew up in NE Ohio.

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