Stallman is wrong:

After one reader advised turning a phone's GPS off, Wretcheddawn on Reddit wrote "GPS is READ ONLY. They cannot in no way shape or form, get your location from a GPS satellite. There would need to be an application on your phone to transmit the GPS coordinates to them manually over the cell network. If they already have an application running on your phone, surely they can just enable GPS."

A Network World reader chimes in with "I'm grateful that the software development community at large has managed to maintain an arms-length relationship with Stallman and FSF [the Free Software Foundation]," while another says, "Currently there is no incentive for most governments to track the public or individuals. If the time comes, then it's easier to evade surveillance by having a phone but leaving it at home. If you have a registered tracking ID, this raises awareness and actually simplifies the evasion. An inherent advantage that vague conspiracy theories do not provide."

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Stallman is crazy: