Re: [Trisquel-users] A phone without GPS

[shiretoko]

"The real problem is that the software in the phones is proprietary, so you  
the user are unable to be sure that the phone is not communicating with  
towers or using its GPS without turning the phone completely off (and since  
computers are never truly off, and some phones might not even be in the  
regular pseudo-"off" state, that means taking out all of the batteries)."

No, in this case, free software can't solve the problem on its own. It should  
only be possible to track cell-phones everytime the user wants this to  
happen.
The user must have the possibility to use his cell-phone without getting  
tracked - not only the possibility to turn it off completely or shut down the  
communication to the towers.
A mechanical modification of todays cell-phones could also provide the  
possibility to turn it off completely; we can think of mechanical  
disconnection of the battery.
But I want to be able to talk -use my device - without getting tracked; a  
free software phone can't provide this.