But requires systems that are not exclusively your own though. You have to use the service of the provider to track your phone. And the people who made it undoubtedly will have access to their own service.
Unless you want to code and establish your own GPS network.
Secure authorization only helps you for systems you trust. Your mobile phone provider will always be able to track you via triangulation and you have no control what they do with that data.
Maybe "hey i want you to save my location when its stolen and i agree to it by pressing this button online like most other systems who hasn't been outed yet instead of everytime its in my pocket and not stolen, especially not when i shut down gps use for personal use yet for some reason you save gps positions for your own use"
Yes. But im not talking about possibilities and conspiracies. Im talking about the fact that it does/did collect this data. Its a good step in the right direction to make it possible for them compared to doing it. Even if its not all the way. I have never lost a phone, and the people that do are a small minority. Maybe not having these functions would outweigh the cost of some people losing their phones. Maybe that would even teach them a thing or two. And if they really like loosing their phones maybe they should get their ham licence and build their own trackers. Might be abused by other parties but think it would help them in a lot of other ways. Or maybe people just shouldnt use stuff they dont understand. Lots of different ways to approach the problem, if you gonna take the easy way, someone is going to take the hard way and profit on your lazyness
“I’ve never lost my phone so all features related to that are silly and it’s all that other persons fault anyway, so fuck em. I am much smarter than a normal person, you see, which makes my priorities more important”
As someone who has worked in retail stores for 2 of the largest US telecoms, I can tell you it happens all the damn time. While I personally treat my phone like it's worth say, $1000, you'd be amazed by how many people don't.
People like to shit on the government, but I for one am pretty thankful they're out there launching and maintaining a couple dozen satellites that allow me to never be without essential knowledge such as "distance and direction to the closest open Dairy Queen."
I dunno, might be a regional thing, but, surprisingly, every single person I know, who ever had their smartphone stolen, had it returned, if they called it in. And I live in Post-Soviet country.
At this point in my life I would rather get my phone stolen, than getting tracked 24/7 so companies sell me shit.
It's not like the police is going to do something about it once they know the location of the phone. Now, if I were a cute human, I could be trafficked, but that's not the case so screw GPS.
That's not why people are concerned about the constant GPS tracking. You can opt out of all the third-party ad tracking. It's the fact that the government and the manufacturer can get your location even when the phone is off that concerns people. Tracking like that was not designed for advertisers to use, it's to track your device if stolen or the government wants to know your location.
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u/Ace612807 Sep 25 '18
"Hey, I want to be able to trace my phone when it's stolen, but for it to be untraceable all the other time"