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To: basil

no. Just turn it off. No energy from battery no signal.


3 posted on 11/24/2011 5:11:25 AM PST by Morgana (Rent this Space....Cheap)
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To: Morgana; basil

Cell phones give GPS location even when they are turned off. And to make matters worse, there is now software available for download to let you turn someone else’s cellphone into a passive listening device.

Somewhat deceptively, some cellphone makes include a “turn off GPS” setting in the menu, but that is downright silly, because your GPS is less determined by your physical phone than it is by triangulation between cellphone towers. The only “official” exception is that all 911 calls automatically send out GPS tracking information.

So all the phone company needs is your unique cellphone identifier, which it must have or it won’t connect you, and it instantly knows where you are.

And the courts have ruled that since your cellphone is a broadcast device, you have no right to privacy over what it transmits and receives.


6 posted on 11/24/2011 5:30:29 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Morgana

Hmm—who to believe? LOL!

Let ‘em come and get me! I simply don’t care anymore.


14 posted on 11/24/2011 5:51:17 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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