My concern is that it activates the E911 hardware within the phone. That has the ability to provide phone GPS location and activate the mic (obvious utility in a 911 emergency scenario). What's of concern here is the speculation over whether the GPS data is being harvested during the test. I personally don't think it is but technically I think it's a given that it easily could be. Running with that, it's trivial to correlate phone number with person with current geographic location. A lot of folks don't like that invasion of privacy, myself included.
Mine is off and in an improvised Farraday bag.
GPS data is always being collected no matter your settings.
Very true. For Android devices it's how Google Maps detects traffic jams. That at least is supposed to be anonymized. Supposed to be. I just didn't like the idea of a Government-originated trigger to collect location snapshots complete with user photo of every single person. Doubt it was done but, like Mulder said, trust no one.
Guess I'll turn mine off. Less than ten minutes, and I'll be at a job site then
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