[anigbrowl]

Unless you live in a rural area, it's increasingly practical to track you and/or your vehicle by means of networked surveillance camera and automated analysis. It might even be that not having a device would make you stand out somewhat as potential malcontent. I don't disagree with your ethos or methods, but I'm not at all convinced of their sufficiency or scaleability, and think they place too much burden on individuals while settling for none at all upon those doing the surveillance.

[lrvick]

Public transit, bikes, electric skateboards, and taxis allow you to move mostly invisibly in cities when required.

Also not having a cellular connection is not a burden once you learn how to navigate for yourself again, and know how to quickly find wifi when you need it. If anything it frees you from compulsive notification checking.

If people flag me as a potential malcontent and discriminate against me I am happy to turn it into an expensive media circus to raise more awareness. I am exercising my legal right to opt out of surveillance systems.

The more people that do this, the less we stand out and the more protected we all are. I do not even -need- to do any of this but I help provide cover for the people that rally do. People like me also make it harder for businesses to do away with cash, table pagers, paper menus, etc.