US government: “Location tracking is bad and dangerous”

Also US government: “We’re not going to ban it, because that’ll cost corporations money”

Also US government: “We’ll just tell everyone to turn it off, so that it’s their own fault from now on!”

Thanks for the suggestion… NSA?

Our phones know where we are and they know where we have been—the problem is they have a nasty habit of sharing that information with others.

What. The. Fuck. Do you think you’re doing?? A “nasty habit”??? You know good and goddamned well they’re designed specifically to do that, and that location data is among the most prized of all personal information.

What sort of mindfuck juice are you chugging to write an inconcievably idiotic sentence like “phones do the cutest thing - they leak your location data! OMG! Squeeee”

Jokes on them: It’s a trivial matter to leave location tracking on and then leave your phone at home, ship it somewhere, tape it under a bus seat, drop it from a bridge on to a barge, etc.