In Other Dystopian News: WiFI Routers can now Potentially Passively ID individuals

[lostincalifornia]

7. Then best thing to do if you are using a government phone, and concerned about tracking

is turning off the phone except when needed to use it, and any communication on those phone should assume the conversations are being monitored.

That is interesting since VPN will definitely giving you a different IP address through DHCP, and you can even get a static IP address through VPN's such as NORD VPN. If you use a public wifi plus a VPN it would be interesting to understand how they would do this through a public router?

That being said, if big brother is comprising a list of people, they should already have that list if you have a government phone, so there is not much one can do about that.