I am sure you all did this, but just in case - if you go to a protest; turn off your location services. Better to not bring your phone at all and use a cheap disposable or something...
At this point, the idiots at the capitol are mainly getting arrested because they had their location services on lmao.
Edit. I’m being told that my boomer tier understanding of phones is problematic. Read below plz.
:ypg-brace: who said to put a sim in there.
But seriously: I know position can be triangulated by cell towers the question is how precise it is and what it actually proves. So you were in the vicinity of a protest? So what? Now they have to prove you did something. This assumes rule of law will be followed which like lol. If they want to get you they'll get you.
It's precise enough, it proves enough. You'll be known to be in the vicinity of a protest for the duration of the protest likely, and in the wake of this insurrection they will be painting every left protest with the same brush, and riding on the public support for taking down "extremists". I expect it to get much harder in the near future.
You don't need a sim to connect to cell towers. https://www.tracephonenumber.in/how-to/emergency-calls-without-sim-card/