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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: RCS is not more private and secure than texting according to the FBI
Date: 27 Dec 2024 16:19:15 GMT
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AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
> On 12/27/24 8:00 AM, badgolferman wrote:
> 
> >Then there is the
> >lingering notion that the cellular provider will always know who and where
> >you are once you use their towers for a phone call or any data related
> >activity.
> 
> You don't even have to make a call or use data. Just have service. I can
>  locate the wife's iPhone using most any device's browser. For example I can
>  do it with this Amazon Fire tablet's browser in an emergency like when
>  she's late bringing home lunch... 

  In that scenario, perhaps *you* don't use any (mobile) data, but *she*
does/did. Her location is not determined by cell/tower pinging, but by
her iPhone using the (mobile) Internet to supply her location.

  But as badgolferman mentioned, the mobile *provider* -  and hence law
enforcement, etc. - will/can know the location of any phone which is in
range and not in Airplane mode, even if the phone does not make/receive
a voice call.