In a rare instance of too much transparency, an Ohio police department released the precise movements of a particular vehicle in response to a public records request, showing just how invasive license plate reading technology can be.
Yeah, I forgot about triangulation. But I highly doubt my government is routinely gathering triangulation data on citizens, and especially not generally law abiding citizens like me. I suppose I could use a faraday cage to guarantee no tracking, but that’s well in the “tin foil hat” category of paranoia.
I use GrapheneOS and disable location most of the time, and sensor access is disabled for most apps. My firewall only allows a handful of apps to access mobile data, and I disable mobile data entirely fairly frequently. I only use Google Play for a handful of services, and they’re in a separate profile so they get fully closed when I’m done with them.
The government could subpoena information about me, but I doubt they routinely collect the sort if information that my phone exposes.
If you where targeted by a state actor there is not much you could do honestly. They have more resources, more knowledge and more time then any one person. The truth is almost everybody is not going to be targeted.
Exactly. I’m not being targeted by a state level actor, I don’t have any warrants or anything, and I’m pretty boring overall.
There are two main strategies to staying hidden:
don’t be seen
blend in
I do the first for the big threats (social media and other big tech), and the second for everything else. If the government wanted to find me, they could, my goal isn’t to hide, but to give them no reason to look for me.
Yeah, I forgot about triangulation. But I highly doubt my government is routinely gathering triangulation data on citizens, and especially not generally law abiding citizens like me. I suppose I could use a faraday cage to guarantee no tracking, but that’s well in the “tin foil hat” category of paranoia.
I use GrapheneOS and disable location most of the time, and sensor access is disabled for most apps. My firewall only allows a handful of apps to access mobile data, and I disable mobile data entirely fairly frequently. I only use Google Play for a handful of services, and they’re in a separate profile so they get fully closed when I’m done with them.
The government could subpoena information about me, but I doubt they routinely collect the sort if information that my phone exposes.
If you where targeted by a state actor there is not much you could do honestly. They have more resources, more knowledge and more time then any one person. The truth is almost everybody is not going to be targeted.
Exactly. I’m not being targeted by a state level actor, I don’t have any warrants or anything, and I’m pretty boring overall.
There are two main strategies to staying hidden:
I do the first for the big threats (social media and other big tech), and the second for everything else. If the government wanted to find me, they could, my goal isn’t to hide, but to give them no reason to look for me.