OK, but I duct-taped the phone to a truck that's bound for Louisiana.
You want it to use GPS but not anything else? You might've been better just getting a GPS device!
Nope, I don't want to be GPS tracked everywhere I go, even when I'm not using it. Also camera and mic.
Where are you potentially going, and what might you potentially be saying that you wouldn't want to be recorded?
Of course, you potentially wouldn't want to tell me on here and potentially bring about any risk.
I'm back to being confused. Why don't you just turn it off, again? When you use it, all that stuff is back on unless you disable it (in which case if you're going to be paranoid properly, know that disabling it in settings won't disable it fully). So what difference does it make?
I don't want to be tracked by google, any 3d-party apps I might want to install, the NSA, local cops or anybody really. It just creeps me out. :-S
If you're fine with being tracked by all of the above, fine. It's the default.
As milko points out, disabling the features in settings and even turning the device off doesn't necessarily disable the features.
I love a bit of Google tracking. Timeline in Google Maps is one of my favourite Google features.
Also, turning the device off does disable the features, because it's off.
Honestly I think the only way to guarantee all of that is to not have the device in the first place. And you probably have to worry about what sort of router you have at home and which ISP and whether to VPN for everything and yadda yadda it likely gets a bit difficult to manage when it all adds up.
That's what they want you to think!
If you're a law abiding citizen (and I'm assuming you are, I don't think there's a law forbidding tin foil hats), then is being tracked necessarily a bad thing?