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Even then, your house would be the location you spend most of your time. You'd have to be really vigilant to switch off your cell functions when you go near your house most of the time, and not always at the same place (otherwise a clean gap in the map will reveal where you live).

If you want to be untraceable you don't use cellphones, simple as that. Of course modern life is ridiculously difficult that way so it's pretty impossible.

Right, but surely he had to prove identity when buying/renting the house? Maybe the telco doesn't know - but if someone could've gone through them to get his home address, they could also have gotten it through other means?

There are plenty of cash rental options out there.

On that note, it is legal to give crossroads as home address in the USA.

Really? Where do they deliver all the ads to in that case?