Also worth bearing-in mind it shouldn't stop at airplane mode:
  • With Airplane mode enabled but Wifi enabled, networks can still triangulate your location based upon available home/public networks it is pinging. And historical networks you have connected to.
  • Even in Airplane mode and with Wifi disabled, most operating systems will still log your location and still receive some GPS/radio signals. GPS or location services need to also be disabled to prevent this.
  • Even without a SIM card, regulations require that you any device can call emergency services. That is why this is the case.
So you need to: a) enable airplane mode, b) disable Wifi, c) disable location services and d) disable bluetooth. Only then do you have a fighting chance to shield yourself.
This video is a must watch, if this is of interest to you... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9DPDE0FZeQ
Looking forward to actual hardware switches in devices to make this practice obsolete.
I feel like at one point, airplane mode actually did disable all this stuff. Then later on it became a bit weaker. Perhaps my memory is wrong, but I believe airplane mode used to disconnect wifi, Bluetooth, everything. Once airplanes started offering wifi services, then you became able to enable airplane mode but then also enable WiFi so you could connect to the paid service offered by airlines.
Maybe I am misremembering, ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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77 sats \ 2 replies \ @davidw 2 Mar
You could well be right.
This is why it's laughable that Apple are privacy-focused. I may still be a user of theirs, but whilst they give you many of the tools to limit their access, you literally have to be an anti-social tinhatter to truly be private on their hardware.
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Yea I feel like appleโ€™s privacy claims are really more relative to their competition than anything else. Doesnโ€™t make it good, just maybe slightly less bad.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @davidw 2 Mar
๐Ÿ’ฏ they are also marketing privacy to the world, which I often underappreciate.
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