Active cellular devices are location tracked. That information is correlated and sold. There’s nothing GraphenOS, or any other on device software can do to stop that.
When you carry a connected cellular device, you’re not only reporting your own location, you’re being tracked in reference to other people that are also carrying a cellular device. Between the two, it’s a detailed map of your lifestyle and people you know or may know.
A land line reduces the tracking to a single location, and the people you communicate with on it. Personally I avoid the land line too unless there’s no other good option.
For private communication, there is Jabber (XMPP), Matrix, and other self hosted services that avoid the entire issue.
If you really need communication on the road, then there are a couple of services that provide cellular connectivity without personal information. It’s not ideal, but better than nothing.
I’m writing all this from the perspective of the US. Other jurisdictions may be different, but location tracking is ubiquitous as far as I know.
There’s not really that much you can do about it if you’re on a cell phone. Your phone is connecting to the cell tower, and at that point all bets are off on how metadata gets used.
It depends on what you mean by safer.
Active cellular devices are location tracked. That information is correlated and sold. There’s nothing GraphenOS, or any other on device software can do to stop that.
When you carry a connected cellular device, you’re not only reporting your own location, you’re being tracked in reference to other people that are also carrying a cellular device. Between the two, it’s a detailed map of your lifestyle and people you know or may know.
A land line reduces the tracking to a single location, and the people you communicate with on it. Personally I avoid the land line too unless there’s no other good option.
For private communication, there is Jabber (XMPP), Matrix, and other self hosted services that avoid the entire issue.
If you really need communication on the road, then there are a couple of services that provide cellular connectivity without personal information. It’s not ideal, but better than nothing.
I’m writing all this from the perspective of the US. Other jurisdictions may be different, but location tracking is ubiquitous as far as I know.
There’s not really that much you can do about it if you’re on a cell phone. Your phone is connecting to the cell tower, and at that point all bets are off on how metadata gets used.