Re: Turn your device completely off once a week as per advice from the NSA today

Peter <confused@nospam.net> wrote:

Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:

which Google & Apple both have a vested
interest in making easily trackable by not allowing you to keep them off.

 
Can you cite a reliable source for this?

 
Not only is it well known information, but there were already reliable
sources previously cited in this very thread by Newyana2, which you
shouldn't be asking me to repeat just because you didn't bother to look.
 

 
I think that's a reasonable question. I can turn off my
Android cellphone, and I do. If it's really true that phones
are now being made that can't be powered down, that's
shocking and nonsensical. Not that I don't believe it, but
I'd like to know the facts one way or the other. If that's really
the case then I suppose the only way to stop tracking
would be too keep the phone in something like a metal
cigarette case.

 
There are two issues that are moving in the wrong direction for privacy
which we have to take separately, but which both Apple & Google benefit
from by not allowing you to be safe from their tracking activities.
 
1. The phones still track even when you think you've turned them off.

That's a user convenience to be able to find lost or stolen devices. Hugely
beneficial.

2. The bluetooth radios turn back on despite you turning them off.

Not true on ios. You can turn it off permanently.