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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes, its invaluable for me when I need to remember what the hell I did with my working week (travel distances, location of meetings, etc).
Then again, much of the time in the week seems to be spent on the Forum. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Every now and then something pops up on my phone and it shows me everywhere I've visited. Most of the time my location hasn't been turned on.  "
Your phone always knows roughly where it is by which masts it's picking it's signal up from |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
Your phone is probably trying to use its GPS to work out your location… you can turn off location services on an iPhone
Worth your while doing if only because you save battery life.. |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
Yes. Google maps shows me where I've been every month, complete with the photos I've taken in that area.
I told my daughters if I disappear to log onto my Gmail account and find the Google maps email. It will show the last places my phone pinged me. |
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"Every now and then something pops up on my phone and it shows me everywhere I've visited. Most of the time my location hasn't been turned on. "
put your phone down and start talking about anything..dinner..kitchens...pain...tyres...anything...then look on your you tube... |
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"Every now and then something pops up on my phone and it shows me everywhere I've visited. Most of the time my location hasn't been turned on. put your phone down and start talking about anything..dinner..kitchens...pain...tyres...anything...then look on your you tube..."
Yep... Exactly |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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100% watching for all that’s coming
AGENDA 2030 !!
For those that know and for those that don’t dona bit of research
Carbón taxes , digital ID , 15 minutes cities
Control control control |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yea and I find it very convenient as Im often in foreign countries looking for transport or logistic solutions.
The powers that be have better things to worry about than what I’m up to. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Everytime I get on my car it links to my sat nav and tells me where I am...."
I usually know where I am, but when it pre-empts my destination and loads it without being asked, that freaks me out.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Every now and then something pops up on my phone and it shows me everywhere I've visited. Most of the time my location hasn't been turned on. "
Everything is tracked!!
To not be. Off grid is the only way. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I was chatting with someone on an app once and I told her where I lived and she was like..
'You liar! you are in Birmingham,
Which is where I was staying with work at the time.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"100% watching for all that’s coming
AGENDA 2030 !!
For those that know and for those that don’t dona bit of research
Carbón taxes , digital ID , 15 minutes cities
Control control control "
"It Comeing home " |
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Got to wonder, if criminals use burner phones all the time, how do they know each other's numbers?
Meanwhile, I'm certain my phone listens in to me and pushes adverts to facebook based on what it has heard. |
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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago
East London |
"It's definitely listening. I could talk about a subject, say Ed Sheeran, while on the phone to someone and soon after, news items on Google appear about Ed Sheeran!!!?"
I did an experiment with my daughter a few weeks ago and had a fake conversation about a random ski destination to see if an advert came up on Facebook, and it did the next day.
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
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I'm sure Dr G, he knows where I have been. Maybe I should stop using Google Pay.
I have wondered if I take the location services if it would still know where I have been by the photos I take. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"It's definitely listening. I could talk about a subject, say Ed Sheeran, while on the phone to someone and soon after, news items on Google appear about Ed Sheeran!!!?
I did an experiment with my daughter a few weeks ago and had a fake conversation about a random ski destination to see if an advert came up on Facebook, and it did the next day.
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They are one to us |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I'm sure Dr G, he knows where I have been. Maybe I should stop using Google Pay.
I have wondered if I take the location services if it would still know where I have been by the photos I take. "
Hmm interesting point |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How do you think the police catch criminals.......
Do they..? The real crimnals use burner phones.well exactly but the innocent brainless criminals "
Surely an oxymoron? Innocent criminals? |
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On a similar thread, the other day I was typing a PM on here using the Firefox browser and I mentioned the Northern Lights in it. Later that day my Google recommended news feed had two articles about the Northern Lights in it. I had not mentioned then in any other form of correspondence or search that day. Really freaked me out about what my phone was tracking. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have a Poco Pro 4. It is as capable and a 2k phone from anyone else, except I provide the Chinese government with all your details and photos. You are welcome. X |
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"Yeah every move every single one of us makes in recorded and often dictated by subtle influences we can hardly see. The matrix is real. "
Not really.
It knows if my phone leaves the house but not if it's me carrying it. |
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By *red333Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
"and it doesn't know if im on the toilet or in the bath or garden or even if Im going to the toilet in the garden"
Yes but youve still got the type of phone that you lift the listening piece off and talk into the mouthpiece and are connected by the operator who calls you granny  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"and it doesn't know if im on the toilet or in the bath or garden or even if Im going to the toilet in the garden"
I visited a place recently and went to the toilet. I didn't order food, just quick in and out.
Now my phone is asking me about it .
Like I said in a previous thread you literally won't be able to use the toilet without someone knowing about it. |
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By *lascumMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"How do you think the police catch criminals.......
Do they..? The real crimnals use burner phones."
Been watching too many tv dramas, if a phone connects to a mast it’s traceable. We can find out where you’ve been. The days of burners are long gone.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"How do you think the police catch criminals.......
Do they..? The real crimnals use burner phones.
Been watching too many tv dramas, if a phone connects to a mast it’s traceable. We can find out where you’ve been. The days of burners are long gone. "
What if its not a smartphone ? Or they just turn it off after calling at a different location. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How do you think the police catch criminals.......
Do they..? The real crimnals use burner phones.
Been watching too many tv dramas, if a phone connects to a mast it’s traceable. We can find out where you’ve been. The days of burners are long gone. "
So if I buy a second hand phone and stick a pay as you go sim in it. How are the police going to track my phone..? They may find my number its the evidence to tie me up with this number and phone thats the problem.
Not saying its impossible, but a lot harder than contrast phone's. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How do you think the police catch criminals.......
Do they..? The real crimnals use burner phones.
Been watching too many tv dramas, if a phone connects to a mast it’s traceable. We can find out where you’ve been. The days of burners are long gone. "
Its not just tv drama's. Read some real court cases and you will see they are still being used. |
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By *ttmcdguyTV/TS
over a year ago
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The answer to the op is yes
All smart phones track you regardless of gps or google maps or any other apps being turned off
Analog phones such as Nokia 3310 pings of closest mast so still traceable
Yes it is listening to your conversations too
As well as your smart tv Alexa video door bells cars etc…..
all messages are screened also for key words
And it’s all legitimately done under the terrorist act headed up by gchq mi6 and the people we don’t evan know about !
But the likes of Alexa and smart tvs is more for sales such as Amazon and google which I don’t agree with
I doubt turning off would shut these functions down!
Remember at the beginning of covid when everyone phones got uploaded with the covid track and trace app !? That was almost impossible to turn off and delete
Well that’s how easily the powers that are trace you !
Technology is way more advanced than any of us are even slightly aware of
We were warned about this 40+years ago on tomorrow’s world |
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And it’s all legitimately done under the terrorist act headed up by gchq mi6 and the people we don’t evan know about !
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Did you see the report last week about how French criminals had got hold of the equipment that the police use for this and had got info off nearly half a million phones? They only caught them due to a driving offence, so it's probably pretty common & UK criminals are doing it too. |
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Remember at the beginning of covid when everyone phones got uploaded with the covid track and trace app !? That was almost impossible to turn off and delete
Well that’s how easily the powers that are trace you !
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They must have missed mine, I never got any track n trace app on my phone.
I’m feeling left out now
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
Years ago I had a really horrendous experience that convinced me never to carry a phone with me ever again: now I only ever make and receive messages by e-mail.
I work on the principle the urgent (phone call) is rarely ever important; and the important (call) is rarely ever urgent.
My phone always remains at my home, and my work goes uninterrupted. There is therefore nothing to track |
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"How do you think the police catch criminals.......
Do they..? The real crimnals use burner phones.
Been watching too many tv dramas, if a phone connects to a mast it’s traceable. We can find out where you’ve been. The days of burners are long gone.
Its not just tv drama's. Read some real court cases and you will see they are still being used."
What’s a burner phone? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How do you think the police catch criminals.......
Do they..? The real crimnals use burner phones.
Been watching too many tv dramas, if a phone connects to a mast it’s traceable. We can find out where you’ve been. The days of burners are long gone.
Its not just tv drama's. Read some real court cases and you will see they are still being used.
What’s a burner phone?"
"A burner phone, or burner, is an inexpensive mobile phone designed for temporary, sometimes anonymous, use, after which it may be discarded.,Burners are purchased with prepaid minutes and without a formal contract with a communications provider."
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"How do you think the police catch criminals.......
Do they..? The real crimnals use burner phones.
Been watching too many tv dramas, if a phone connects to a mast it’s traceable. We can find out where you’ve been. The days of burners are long gone.
Its not just tv drama's. Read some real court cases and you will see they are still being used.
What’s a burner phone?
"A burner phone, or burner, is an inexpensive mobile phone designed for temporary, sometimes anonymous, use, after which it may be discarded.,Burners are purchased with prepaid minutes and without a formal contract with a communications provider."
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"How do you think the police catch criminals.......
Do they..? The real crimnals use burner phones.
Been watching too many tv dramas, if a phone connects to a mast it’s traceable. We can find out where you’ve been. The days of burners are long gone.
Its not just tv drama's. Read some real court cases and you will see they are still being used.
What’s a burner phone?
"A burner phone, or burner, is an inexpensive mobile phone designed for temporary, sometimes anonymous, use, after which it may be discarded.,Burners are purchased with prepaid minutes and without a formal contract with a communications provider."
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Thank you.  |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
My understanding of a 'burner phone' is that it is a 'pay as you go' phone, that is purchased for cash, with no details of ownership being recorded, top-ups are also cash, and after a period the phone is deliberately destroyed irretrievably.
The process is repeated with the next phone.
Burner phones are usually the most basic type with no internet access, and can receive voice calls and text messages.
However, sophisticated and highly organised crims use encrypted phones that are extremely expensive, but French security services cracked these years ago and were able to read the encrypted messages and track the criminals.
If I am wrong about the burner phones, apologies. |
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If nothing else it gives conspiracy theorists something to talk to other conspiracy theorists about.
It's like an adult version of Chinese Whispers, stories get skewed, over exaggerated, or just plain lied about.
Conspiracy theorists are more often than not to be found in Tin Foil Hat shops getting measured up.... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I had a conversation earlier today with someone about air fryers and now something popped up from the sun newspaper suggesting air fryers.
It feels creepy . |
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"Every now and then something pops up on my phone and it shows me everywhere I've visited. Most of the time my location hasn't been turned on. "
We are tracked every minute of the day and not just by your phone. Nearly everything electronic (smart technology) that has Internet and GPS will be able to track you.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Every now and then something pops up on my phone and it shows me everywhere I've visited. Most of the time my location hasn't been turned on. put your phone down and start talking about anything..dinner..kitchens...pain...tyres...anything...then look on your you tube..."
It’s been proven that phones link up when in close range of other phones and scan for internet searches if we’re talking about a subject persons phone has done a search or has a old search on it it pops up on your phone |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Every now and then something pops up on my phone and it shows me everywhere I've visited. Most of the time my location hasn't been turned on. "
you need to check your settings for all apps |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My wife's Facebook and Etsy accounts regularly come up with suggestions for her based on my browsing activity. It's very creepy. "
Delete your cookies, or eat them.. |
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"and it doesn't know if im on the toilet or in the bath or garden or even if Im going to the toilet in the gardenYes but youve still got the type of phone that you lift the listening piece off and talk into the mouthpiece and are connected by the operator who calls you granny "
Be quiet man with bean cans on string ! |
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"I had a conversation earlier today with someone about air fryers and now something popped up from the sun newspaper suggesting air fryers.
It feels creepy . "
I prefer that to my air fryer suddenly reading me the headlines. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It’s got the point now where as much as I don’t like it, I’m accepting that it’s happening all the time.
Where I’m going, what I’m looking at. It’s all getting stored away somewhere for advertising or whatever.
It’s only if I really do t want someone knowing what I’m doing for whatever reason that I’ll turn my phone off, pay in cash, turn off cookies or use incognito or something.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Seriously though if they are tracking us and listening to us, then maybe they are looking through our cams.
Just imagine jerking off whilst watching porn and someone is watching us . |
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By *batMan
over a year ago
Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales) |
"Seriously though if they are tracking us and listening to us, then maybe they are looking through our cams.
Just imagine jerking off whilst watching porn and someone is watching us ."
Some of us might quite like that idea!
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"Seriously though if they are tracking us and listening to us, then maybe they are looking through our cams.
Just imagine jerking off whilst watching porn and someone is watching us ."
You could say, that would be one in the eye for them |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
Prior to the advent of the internet and the ubiquity of personal computers and smartphones and shopping online, I had two adverse experiences which 'marked' me; this was prior to the concepts of stalking and harassment being put into the public domain.
The two individuals had severe issues, personality disorders, and for a time, in one instance for nearly two years, one of them made my life hell will daily phonecalls to my workplace and my home and stalking me.
Foolishly, I do not get the police involved, but I did approach a person in a position of authority for his assistance, but he told me that the person concerned was doing the same thing to him!
Since that time I have ensured that non-one, not even my employers, had my personal phone number, and I very rarely, if ever, carry a phone with me.
This has its drawbacks, of course. People with a conspiritorial mindset or who have something to hide lambast the tracking features of modern phones.
These do have advantages, but in my case the awful experience over a period of two years, that began innocuously but escalated to an intolerable level very rapidly damaged me.
One perpetrator was relatively easy to get rid of; the other came to a particularly tragic end, by his own hand !
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By *lascumMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"How do you think the police catch criminals.......
Do they..? The real crimnals use burner phones.
Been watching too many tv dramas, if a phone connects to a mast it’s traceable. We can find out where you’ve been. The days of burners are long gone.
So if I buy a second hand phone and stick a pay as you go sim in it. How are the police going to track my phone..? They may find my number its the evidence to tie me up with this number and phone thats the problem.
Not saying its impossible, but a lot harder than contrast phone's. "
All phones have an imei. If your suspected to be in a location or several locations the imei can be narrowed down with the sim I’d and you too can be narrowed down with it to put you in the vicinity of any enquiry… you would have to change the sim and phone every time you switched it on to make a call. One time use only. Then destroy both as the moment it comes back on the network it’s flagged. There is very clever tech out there and the providers have an onus to assist any ipa requests. |
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Of course it does, Apple and Google know everything. They know the porn you watch, the sex toys you buy, the clubs you visit and if they track everyone else too they also know who you meet.
But.
They honestly don't care as long as they they can vector an advertisement to you. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Seriously though if they are tracking us and listening to us, then maybe they are looking through our cams.
Just imagine jerking off whilst watching porn and someone is watching us ."
New kink unlocked |
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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago
Newry Down |
Of course everyone's phone enables them to be tracked and if required monitored.
Frankly, what I do with my life is so inconsequential and irrelevant,that no-one would be in the least bit interested in what I do.
On a daily basis, I ensure that I am the archetypal Grey Man in Irish society, unnoticed and unrecognised
But, I have a hidden life, an avocation that brings pleasure and meaning into my outwardly boring modus vivendi. |
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