When your cell phone gets a call, it’s not like every tower on the network suddenly starts looking for your phone, only the towers with the best signal send the call. If for example you're in South Dakota when a call comes in, towers in California, Kentucky and Maine aren't suddenly looking for you, only the towers with the best signal quality send you the call; this is how carriers guarantee “quality of service” and why there are cell phone towers all over the place.
The "cell" in “cell phone” refers to the towers themselves, or more accurately the range of coverage for each tower. That is how the industry refers to them and in order to guarantee quality of service your provider needs to know what “cell” or “cells” your phone is closest to; so in that regard ALL CELL PHONES "smart" and "dumb" are tracked. Additionally all cell phones can be compromised allowing your devices microphone, camera, or GPS to be used by unauthorized persons without your knowledge. It has been proven that the contents of your entire phone including the text messages, emails, phone book, confidential log in information etc can be accessed with or without the phone being connected to any network, just like people used to steal phone numbers from highway overpasses when mobile phones first came out.
We have spent YEARS researching the problem.
The problem is REAL and so is the SOLUTION: The Case For Privacy – Because there is a case for privacy.
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