Travel Tuesday - I am being tracked


I am not paranoid, I am being tracked and here is the evidence.  This starts in about 2013 or 2014, and is shockingly accurate.  If I zoom into the details, it sometimes knows what room I am in, in some buildings.  

I might be tracked by some nameless, government entity, but probably not.  But if I can find this, so can they. I am tracked by my phone.  I get this report from Google, updated monthly, with an annual report that includes everything they know about where I have been. At some point in setting up something I apparently clicked the magic button to get a copy of the report. 

I can't remember the last time I went someplace that I didn't want anyone to know I was going, maybe back in the days of adult bookstores.  But if I want to not be followed, I could just turn off my phone, or leave it at home (I don't always turn it on, often leave home without it.) 

I am not worried about others knowing.  I assume that customs and immigration has tracked my passport.  That TSA keeps a record of all of my airlines flights.  If they haven't, what are we spending all of that money for? 

It is kind of fun to look back at the record of where I have been.  I really wish it went back to the mid 1960's a few years when my family traveled a lot.  

If I am ever lost, Google can find me, or at least find my phone. Assuming the phone is turned on.  Even with the phone in airplane mode, Google can tell you where it is, trust me on that one, we found the phone, eventually wedged next to the seat of a rental car in Iceland. Airplane mode blocked the call, so we couldn't hear it ring, but Google kept telling me I was on top of the phone. When I moved the car, the phone moved.  

You are probably being tracked also.  Apple has that wonderful find my device service.  

    

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