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And turn your phone power off before committing a crime…

The first thing the police will do is connect it to power battery packs

Don't even bring your phone with you. You need to use old school methods to avoid tracking.

But if you leave your phone at home only on the days you commit crimes, it's a problem too. This was used in the past to identify people.

ALPR is the other big one. Your daily habits are in many databases and it’s easier than ever to sort out the outliers

I read this story many years ago where researchers were able to re-identify people using open travel datasets.