Looks like Walnut Creek wants to know, and store, everyone’s movements based on cell phone tracking.
Seems a total invasion of privacy to me. I doubt that the tracking company can actually distinguish between visitors and locals. If they can, that is a problem in its own right.
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That slider on the left side of your Kompakt is your faraday cage although I have not analysed socket communications through a proxy yet. My old faraday cage? A folded over sleeve of aluminium foil…phone goes inside, and doubles as a hat for the nay-sayers 
While the Kompakt appears to provide you more privacy and tracking protection than most all other phones (hacked to be so, or not), just the nature of cellular communications provides tracking for police, Search & Rescue (in the States, pretty much a Sheriff’s posse, but good to have) and all those three letter acronym agencies (in all countries). Not to say they’re all analysing you in real-time, but of course the cellular carriers have a history database of the towers you hit. Trigonometry is not difficult. From articles I’ve read, in the States, all they need is “probable cause” to track you without a warrant and for that matter your presence in a certain area can cause you to be tracked even if you’re just shopping for your sweetie.
I found this quote on more than one site. Now this Hammond guy was probably guilty, regardless of the probable cause, but his attorney’s statement is great:
On appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Hammond’s attorneys warned that “real-time cell phone pinging thus allows the state to surreptitiously track the movements of any individual with a cell phone (essentially all Americans) with a voyeuristic level of precision, and without ever leaving the precinct.”
Check out certosoftware and on down the path
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I have no background on their software nor do I have any investments in Certo. I found many of the articles under “Expertise” relevant for me at least.
The GPS on the Kompakt appears to be very accurate in my area and it still works when you tune out cellular communications. Just waiting for a Maps OS update or perhaps to sideload a mapping app for my travels.
By the way the nature of cellular communications and the history database makes it better if your phone sticks to a regular routine whenever you are about to do something irregular… politically correct example: drive to another city for a protest, when you’re driving there with your phone as usual, they can possibly see your phone standing out on the road and outside your typical area (?), it might be even more standing out if you go Offline+ for the drive and then enable it at the protest to call someone for just a minute… Gotta stay in Offline+ or leave phone at home. if being spotted is your worry.
Not worried about being ‘spotted’. More a matter of retaining my privacy. Not sure why the government needs to collect information on everyone. They certainly should not be spending my money learning that I went up to San Mateo for lunch today, and then storing that information in a server farm for future reference. It boggles the mind how much infrastructure and power is required to support this level of surveillance. Like the AI planned infrastructure…
Even without AI it’s despicable but I believe if government wanted, they could force service providers to not store such logs or anonymize them if needed for any troubleshooting of the network. Big data and the idea of being able to track some culprit down might be too tempting for them, though…