Your Smartphone May be Tracking Your Every Move.....

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The globalists will try to do so. Black markets LOVE cash. If push becomes shove, guess who will win out. Financial institutions and merchants who comply with such a scheme will quickly learn they chose ignorantly. My guess is that most will end up opposing it vehemently. Defense of freedom comes in many strange packages including commercial greed. As offensive as that might seem to some, I will take freedom anywhere I can find it.

I think physical cash will disappear, once there is a viable option for performing exchanges anonymously. To me, that is a core benefit of cash.

and of course you are correct that all black markets(virtually) run on cash, but if the PTB decide to legislate physical fiat out of circulation how could anyone stop them?

The USA in particular is making exceptionally strong moves to prevent tax evasion and even tax avoidance and to collect the "World Income" of all Americans. FATCA and GATCA are contemporary examples of this tact. All other G20 nations are pursuing similar policies and what better way than to make ALL commerce ELECTRONIC?

The fin. inst. did NOT like FATCA and GATCA but all complied.

Some hoped that Bitcoin et al would fill that role but of course its anonymity is dubious at best.

Physical gold and silver, despite their currently faked low and stagnant prices, are still very much in circulation. Some U.S. merchants are already accepting metals as payment. My own State of Utah accepts gold and silver for payment of state taxes and legalized it for all debts, public and private (if all parties to a transaction agree). Many of our liberty-minded merchants accept metals.

Bartering is also a nifty way to acquire things one needs in exchange for things one doesn't need as much. Many preppers have stored cases of whiskey, vodka, gin, bourbon etc. for bartering purposes. It is funny that as the world collapses into anarchy, people will still pay any price for their vices.

Finally, there are always crypto-currencies. While a lot less stable for transaction endurance (Internet shutdowns), they offer a way to expand bartering into an untraceable, invisible wealth.

The more we reward merchants with cash purchases (it provides them immediate cash without the merchant fees involved with plastic transactions), the more the will realize that their business couldn't survive without it and begin to lobby against laws which would hamper that immediate income.

There are a LOT of crypto-currencies, not just BitCoin. But, I have had my doubts about its stability and endurance. To me, my time spent at financial institutions convinced my that cryptos need to introduce measures to prohibit gaming their markets in the way that some can game the stock markets simply by buying and selling at the right times. Whole markets can be crashed in a day with such practices. Cryptos could, like certain stock markets, automatically suspend trades for minutes, hours or days after large buys or sells to help stabilize the fiat values.

The freaky part is that these electronics back doors are usually cooked into the hardware. Re-imaging the OS on a smartphone away from Android likely wouldn't even do anything. I encrypt my phone but I haven't really had the cash lately to choose a device sufficiently uncommon to keep the fed's hooks out of my pocket.

Hacker's opinion? Paranoia won't help you dismantle a panopticon. To accomplish that in modern times, populaces must learn the backbones of their technology en-masse. Anonymous is too standoffish and apocryphal to get this done. Ask me (or someone like me) all your information security questions, because that's the only way you're going to slay this hydra.

I'd very much like to take you up un that offer... you were writing about a "device sufficiently uncommon"...
now, would you care to give an example of that, or can you point me to sources where I can educate myself about what a phone should or shouldn't have installed?

much appreciated.

It's not the easiest list to fully compile because vulnerabilities ship in all sizes, shapes and places. Sometimes they're largely absent from devices you'd expect to be full of holes; Windows Phone looks pretty solid, despite being something I've no use for. Here's my short list (there isn't any particularly useful order I could set it in): Nokia Meego/Maemo (N9/N950, N900), Nokia Symbian, Jolla Sailfish Phone/Tablet (contains an Android environment), Palm WebOS/Open WebOS (Phoenix ROMs for Android phones, slow network interfaces on Palm/HP hardware, Palm TouchPads can multiboot Android), Firefox OS (available worldwide on lots of hardware, usually cheap devices though), mobile Ubuntu Linux (Looks promising, available for some Android devices, I'd prefer Sailfish since I own a Nokia N9), CyanogenMod (a popular redux of stock Android, built for tons of devices, investment backed by Microsoft), jailbroken iOS (I suppose, but given all of the above, it's hardly worth the bother) and ye olde Palm OS (because Trēos kick a$$)...

Sorry for inciting so much Googling, I've had informational meetings all week and I'm kind of exhausted. iDevice fingerprint scanners are a joke BTW.

I've known about this for a while. Just one of the many toys Big Brother has to keep track of us all.

Edward Snowden said they could do this awhile ago, from what I understand once they get your MAC address of your smartphone they are able to track your movements as you access different mobile networks pretty easily. There is very little our government doesn't surveil.

nothing new; and if you think that any tinkering will remove the gov's ability to follow you, you are still misguided.
having my location services off will limit the tracking ability to the cell i'm in, which is around 100 meters radius. good enough for me.

If i really want to not be followed, i remove my phones battery; simply turning it off isn't enough, the antenna stays on enough to be seen, only a battery removal makes you digitally invisible.