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[–] AnoInc 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Company phone, company rules. Inside work hours, my location has to be on and available.

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[–] MRPockets ago 

Time to get a low-powered (really low-powered, so you don't get arrested...) GPS jammer. "See boss, my location is turned to on; it's just not working."

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[–] passwordsonvoatrbad 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Anyone use Android based Replicant?

http://www.replicant.us/

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[–] MRPockets 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

GApps free CyanogenMod. I would use Replicant but my phone isn't supported.

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[–] MRPockets 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

Why make it easy?

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[–] katphish ago 

i turn it off to save battery

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[–] philomath ago 

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[–] LOLATU ago 

Your location is still roughly tracked by the cell towers you connect to. You can turn off location history in your Google preferences. Yes, I keep GPS off unless I'm actually using it.

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[–] Grumpy_Old_Man 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The latest disturbing news I heard was facebook can remotely turn on your microphone on your phone and listen to what you're talking about. Then target ads about what you were discussing when you open facebook. Anybody else hear about that?

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[–] MRPockets 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yep. This is one of the reasons I refuse to have anything to do with Facebook personally. I do maintain a corporate page, but only ever on said corporation's computers. The app will never touch my phone.

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[–] MRPockets 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I never turn mine on except for when using a map. I've got all the location stuff turned off that I know of. I also don't have Google Apps (GApps) on my phone, so Google would be hard pressed to track me physically. For online, I run an adblocker, so Google Analytics is gone too (they have plenty of other services though that are much harder to avoid).

If you are concerned enough, you might want to look into running GApps free CyanogenMod or better yet Replicant if your phone is supported.

If you are interested, you might like /v/flossdroid, a subverse dedicated to Free/Libre Android & therefore emphasizing user freedom (no tracking, etc). It's still small, but I'm working to grow it. I'm the mod for full disclosure.

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