>>9681180 (pb)

>They know everything about us and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

False. There remain things you can do to preserve some privacy. To list them all here would be to slide the bread, but your statement is a defeatist falsehood and needed to be refuted. Start with not putting any information about yourself on social media. Then get an old phone whose battery you can remove. Keep the battery out of the phone except when you want to make a call. That's just two examples to get truth-seekers started refuting this "there is no privacy" myth.

>>9681217 (pb)

>If required, cellular network operators can perform triangulation through multiple base stations. If the handset in question is not currently in active use (call or data), there is a function called "silent ping", which is basically a special type of short message. Any handset will reply to it, but will not show any indication that it did to the user.

True, but omits the information offered above, that no pings occur to phones without batteries installed. Privacy is still possible, despite the daily invasions of privacy to which we are all subjected. Start by voicing your objection. Follow up with non-compliance.