Phone manufacturers need you to purchase their newest wares in order to boost sales that pay for R&D (research and development) which brings in billion dollar fortunes for the corporations.
But, is this newest technology actually to your benefit?
Maybe or maybe not.
One thing is for sure with every new technology comes a new exploit.
Phone manufacturers may tout that their newest tech is safe, secure, etc but that is just plain and simply 'marketing' jargon, a lie, or to put it in legal terms; deceptive and misleading conduct.
The newest way of tracking people 24/7 will be via phones that do not have a physical SIM card but this new technology called eSIM.
The phone manufacturers may stated that the eSIM card might be able to be turned off, BUT in reality it can be turned on remotely.
You can turn something on if it's not physically there, like when your remove a SIM card, for privacy purposes.
Apple and Google have baked in new spying 'technology' within their respective operating systems with the use of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning.
This cannot be turned off, irrespective of what you are told, where the only way to deal with it is to 'de-Google' your phone (remove the OEM's spyware attached to the baseline version of Android called AOSP), which some phone manufacturers allow this, but in the case of Apple's iPhones if you want a more private solution, then selling that phone is the first step.
We do not recommend to making the switch to eSIM (electronic Subscriber Identity Module) phones.
An Australian family was cheated out of their live saving by a hacker, using an eSIM as the 'excuse'.
While the hack may not have originated from the actual eSIM, it's another attack surface that can be exploited, and will be in the future by hackers.
From the beginning, mobile communications given to the masses were not secure/private.
Inherently or rather deliberately by design GSM protocols where made with 'backdoors' in mind, so that authorities can gain access to the target's phone.
Intel deliberately coded in a 'backdoor' into the core of its CPUs so that authorities could gain undetected and unfettered access to your personal computer, something which was not detected for many years.
In relation to the newest hack, as usual corporations involved denounce responsibility, blame each other in a confusing legal mess that is made deliberately difficult or expensive for the average 'consumer' to obtain a remedy.
Disabling internet transactions on your card/account is another way to thwart thieves.
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