Tired of new vehicles. Should I sell my Ranger?

[pentode]

I still don't understand how a signal without any SIM info wouldn't be anonymous... But again, just pull the fuse if you want to kill every last bit of it.

Agreed on "soft" power buttons though. TV provider set top boxes were one that really stood out for me as being the case here. We switched to a roof antenna not so much because of the data that gets passed back & forth (it still was a small part of it), but mainly because it just got waaayy to expensive for what we were getting (there's a ton of stuff to watch on OTA TV since the switch to digital TV signals... About the only thing we missed for awhile was Comedy Central, but were past that now).

Every baseband cell radio has an IMEI. If it has power, it's phoning home. It makes me vomit to report that if you buy tampons (or God forbid, day after pill) at the local pharmacy on a credit card, data brokers are scraping that up.

It's sickening but easily verifiable.

Edit: obviously the nightly news isn't reporting this stuff. Suddenly I realize I'm that guy.

Edit2: I don't pretend to be the oracle of truth but I'm happy to explain any of this tech as far as I understand it. I'm moderately qualified. . Also very happy to learn and be corrected.

Edit 3: I don't offer these examples to be controversial, they're just examples of sensitive personal data I can imagine people probably don't want to share.