It's only paranoia if they aren't out to get you! We've already turned the corner. I can name a lot of people of the generation below us who say "What have you got to hide?"
Hide nothing...but a person would like to have privacy to some degree. Does Google know if I have had a BM this morning...geez I bet they do
Citizen Band radios were a popular thing in the past to have in your car "just in case". A cell phone now has that same usefulness for me in a compact package. I appreciate it too when walking alone way off road when fishing.
There was a segment on one of those news programs several years ago. A guy powered down his Android (non-Apple) cell phone (left in the battery), and went around DC to popular tourist sites, spending some time at each. He then went to a lab where a technician had the equipment & skills to see what the phone transmitted when it was turned back on and got a cell tower signal. As soon as the phone was turned back on, it immediately sent the guy's movements for the day to Google (Android was developed by Google)! It gave locations, when he arrived at each, when he left, where he went next, etc. And this was with the phone powered down. It's long been known that the NSA can locate your phone even if it is "turned off." ps- I have a message for you from Google: eat more fiber
Ah but how soon we forget Hal. If you must bury your cell phone do so but give it the dignity and thanks that it deserves. Was it not that same cell phone which held tightly to your pictures and waited patiently for you to re-find them? You know, the pictures you first posted when you arrived here as a fledgling AoC member. Yes, it was one of the first rungs on the ladder toward knowing more about how to further your status here at this very forum (and others) but alas, you have grown so much and like a successful man to the peons below him, you have forgotten the little things that got you where you are now. On your trip skyward, did that cell phone ever do anything wrong to you? Did it not sit day in and day out for you in your hot car awaiting some small token of appreciation such as a pat on the on/off button? Why, it was more loyal to you than your dog but did you once say thank you? Did you once just tickle the keypad or rub between it’s sound up and down buttons? Before you dispose of it, the very least you could do is to take a picture of it and have it framed and set right there on the mantle so everyone who enters can see that one item, that one piece of your history that showed so much willing but fell as a lonely soldier on the battlefield.
Which is another proof that if ya don’t pay attention to business at home, those in your home will go find business elsewhere.
So, it’s okay to have 3 bars whilst in a bar but be aware of going to 3 bars lest one find one’s self behind bars calling someone who has passed the bar on a cell phone that has 1-3 bars whilst in a cell. Got it.