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All smartphones are.

My Librem 5 isn't.

Your carrier can follow your location by triangulating your position from your SIM ID.

Only if the modem hardware kill switch is on. I can always make sure I'm not tracked whenever I need it.

plus as anyone doing navigation with these open source phones knows, 3gpp location is embarrassingly low resolution without a supplemental source like WiFi SSID visibility, which has to be measured client-side. plus cell networks are asymmetric (SNR is higher from tower -> cell than from cell -> tower) so all else equal triangulation on the tower side should be even lower resolution.

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