On February 7, 2018, carrying two identical Android phones, with no SIM card in either of two phones and one set on Airplane Mode, Fox News Headlines 24/7 anchor Brett Larson visited several major landmarks in Washington D.C., from the Fox News bureau on North Capitol Street, to the Children's Hospital in the north, the Washington National Cathedral in the northwest and back to Capitol Hill. During that time, he was not connected to WiFi and only took photos at the cathedral. Back at the Fox News Channel bureau, Larson hooked the phones up to a device that copied the data the phones sent to Google. He found it knew exactly where he was throughout the day. "It knows when I got out of the car!" he exclaimed, examining metadata in the report.
Google uses a methodology called "Surveillance Capitalism" to capture and track your movements and habits. Even with your phone turned off it has the ability to track your movements and transmit that data to Google as soon as it connects to the network or internet.
Read the complete story and watch the video at Fox News.
'It Knows When I Got Out of the Car!': Tucker's Special Report on How Google's Tracking You
Turning off ‘Location Services’ provides some limited protection, but to ensure that your phone isn’t gathering data to transmit to Google the next time it connects you have to block all signals to the phone. This means removing the battery so that it has no power whatsoever, or placing your phone in a Faraday Bag so that it blocks all signals to and from your phone.
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