I can confirm. Its on my phone. I keep my bluetooth and GPS off most of the time. But its not all that uncommon that I turn them. So I tried that. Now it says I have to download a "participating" app. Not that thats reassuring.
How fast can this be developed? (At least the underlying software) Is it doable in a couple of months and be pushed out?
Am willing to bet these apps have been waiting on the sideline for quite awhile.
Google has been caught more than once tracking both android & iPhones through one’s google account.
i’m pretty sure turning off Bluetooth, WiFi, and cellular data & location services won’t disable your GPS. I think when you said you turn off your GPS you mean turning off location. As I recall, shutting off your phone or turning on airplane mode won’t stop geolocating a phone. I’m no expert so correct me if I’m wrong here... Location tracking is done 2 ways: 1. Via cell towers as your phone connects from one tower to the next as you travel. 2. Via GPS satellites communicating with the GPS in your phone. The GPS is still accessing the battery so turning off the phone doesn’t turn off tracking. I think in order to disable the GPS, the battery must be dead or removed or put your phone in a signal blocking case.
A phone wrapped in aluminum foil can’t receive calls (<— Edit: yes it can) so maybe the GPS signals are also blocked? Isn’t aluminum used for Faraday cages? You can get GPS signal blocking devices to block transmission if you’re worried that a GPS device might have been put on your car by a stalker. Not that you’d wrap your car in foil, (that’s silly yuk yuk) but that device’s technology made me wonder if GPS can penetrate a Faraday cage.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Not wanting to rely on my memory I searched about phones being tracked when shut off. The articles I found only talked about turning off location services or said turning off location services turns off GPS, nothing about turning off the phone. The more promising results wouldn’t open or returned an error message. And then I found the following. I’m sorry I didn’t copy the link, only took screen shots.
And this is what I found when I opened the link. It never said anything about NSA.
I found this article and it doesn’t explain things the way I understand it to work:
https://www.techrepublic.com/articl...even-if-gps-location-services-are-turned-off/
And this article talks about fake towers activating GPS. With the levels of corruption today, I’m sticking with my unqualified stance that GPS can’t be disabled and there’s no need for a fake anything to activate it.
https://geekprepper.com/cellphone-the-tracking-device-in-your-pocket/?amp=1