A Texas councilmember will propose “a total ban on all cellular and GPS-capable devices for all operations within city limits" and"a total termination of all internet services."
Google Play Services is the biggest bane of privacy on Google’s official Android itself (It feeds motion data to applications without giving you an opt-out). But like you mentioned, people can leave their phone at home, or put it in a Faraday cage, disable Play Services, or install Graphene and local mapping app.
If anybody’s intrigued by those options, I hope they follow up on them.
Google Play Services is the biggest bane of privacy on Google’s official Android itself (It feeds motion data to applications without giving you an opt-out). But like you mentioned, people can leave their phone at home, or put it in a Faraday cage, disable Play Services, or install Graphene and local mapping app.
If anybody’s intrigued by those options, I hope they follow up on them.