Only if you’re the subject of a warrant. Do you have any idea that you are suspected of anything?

Faraday bag

don’t take your phone.

take a burner phone if you really need one.

Yes. Leave your phone/smart watch at home. Hope no one hid a GPS on your car, or is tracking the included GPS if it has one.

If you’re connected to data, just assume someone has a method of tracking you and that someone else might be interested in purchasing that data

Someone? Sorry to say, the amount of people that would have access to that GPS info would horrify you. Not to mention the types of people they are and the groups that they represent.

Private companies, private citizens, government personnel and agencies.

There was a guy that was arrested because the local police saw that he liked something on Facebook and was able to track down his location because his phone was connected to his home wifi.

All the government needs is a reason and a warrant for it to be used against you, and often, they can still look if they want, they just can’t use it against you until the warrant is obtained.

Can people track your phone? Does a bear crap in the woods?

Look up a phone faraday cage

It is not a good idea to carry a phone when you bury a corpse in the forest

I always leave it at home

Anyone else think this sounds kinda sketch?

yes, they can. disconnect from the cellular network if you don’t want that (turn your phone off)

If your phone is turned on and getting signal, then its pings to the cell towers is being recorded by your service provider. If later subpoenaed, they would turn over those records and the tomato police could triangulate where your garden is.

Either do not take it. Or if you want it for emergencies put it in a faraday bag as someone said. I would not trust it just being in airplane mode or even turned off but not in a bag.

Hey, you seem kinda paranoid! You should smoke a joint and relax with some peaceful tomato gardening.

It’s not your phone you should worry about…

Wait, is the tomato boys a real thing?

The short answer is: yes.

If your phone is only connecting to the mobile phone network, the authorities can track its location by guestimating your distance from multiple nearest radio towers, but this method is generally rather inaccurate. We are talking about about 1 kilometer accuracy here. So if someone really wants to find your secret tomato growing spot, they could, with this data alone.

This is just with phone signal alone. There can also be software on your phone that leaks your location GPS data. For example, any kind of mapping app, fitness steps tracker etc can be monitoring your location all the time and can be posting that online even if you don’t know about it.

The only thing you can do to prevent this is to turn off your phone or if you are paranoid about it being possibly still being used to track you, leave the phone home and only bring a burner dumb phone with you (turned off) for emergency use.

what can I do to prevent it?

don’t smoke crack and stop asking norsense on a tech support reddit, we all know you’re planting pot somewhere hidden

Just say you wanna be impossible to track

we’re gonna answer: wrap your phone on aluminum foil