I have bad news: Apple and Google both know where you really are.
Unless you’re using a VPN provided by a wifi gateway you’re connected to because they provision the VPN on your phone they know your actual IP and can use that.
Worse because phones universally have GPS and aGPS provided by cell phone tower pings they know for a fact where you are geographically located down to 20 yards. Maybe they’ll half-ass it but maybe the law includes provisions or maybe they simply don’t want to risk fines.
On top of that they probably have your billing address and your credit card company is happy to confirm your zip code.
The only way around it seems to be not having a phone, sacrificing so many basic features it makes no sense to have the device yet still being on proprietary hardware with hacky workarounds, buying a Pixel and hoping GrapheneOS sticks around, or ROMs like LineageOS not on a Pixel thereby leaving your phone boot unlocked which makes you vulnerable to theft + malware + cell towers + wifi 😃👍
The CIA won for now. You cannot have cellular connection safely. Every single internet connection related to a billed service or phone number is FUCKED. Woe! Woe!
But I live in Texas, and I’ve been using a VPN for like a year to get around new forms of censorship already. I guess we’ll wait and see and I can tell you if a VPN does in fact work for this.
The funny thing is that I’ve had to change the VPN location from Louisiana to Denver because other southern state are passing similar laws, too.
If you mean porn sites or reddit or whatever demanding an ID because of porn content those companies have no way of verifying who you are or your real IP, all they know is where your connection request is coming from, what that IP is and maybe things like your timezone. That’s all. They aren’t in a position to really verify off anything but IP address.
Google and Apple on their phones especially (not so much Macs and Chromebooks or Ipads) have multiple good ways of strongly determining with high reliability exactly where you are because of cellular networks, because of GPS and aGPS, because they have your billing info, etc.
I have bad news: Apple and Google both know where you really are.
Unless you’re using a VPN provided by a wifi gateway you’re connected to because they provision the VPN on your phone they know your actual IP and can use that.
Worse because phones universally have GPS and aGPS provided by cell phone tower pings they know for a fact where you are geographically located down to 20 yards. Maybe they’ll half-ass it but maybe the law includes provisions or maybe they simply don’t want to risk fines.
On top of that they probably have your billing address and your credit card company is happy to confirm your zip code.
The only way around it seems to be not having a phone, sacrificing so many basic features it makes no sense to have the device yet still being on proprietary hardware with hacky workarounds, buying a Pixel and hoping GrapheneOS sticks around, or ROMs like LineageOS not on a Pixel thereby leaving your phone boot unlocked which makes you vulnerable to theft + malware + cell towers + wifi 😃👍
The CIA won for now. You cannot have cellular connection safely. Every single internet connection related to a billed service or phone number is FUCKED. Woe! Woe!
But I live in Texas, and I’ve been using a VPN for like a year to get around new forms of censorship already. I guess we’ll wait and see and I can tell you if a VPN does in fact work for this.
The funny thing is that I’ve had to change the VPN location from Louisiana to Denver because other southern state are passing similar laws, too.
If you mean porn sites or reddit or whatever demanding an ID because of porn content those companies have no way of verifying who you are or your real IP, all they know is where your connection request is coming from, what that IP is and maybe things like your timezone. That’s all. They aren’t in a position to really verify off anything but IP address.
Google and Apple on their phones especially (not so much Macs and Chromebooks or Ipads) have multiple good ways of strongly determining with high reliability exactly where you are because of cellular networks, because of GPS and aGPS, because they have your billing info, etc.