Keep in mind that the wireless operators are also trying to monetize this sort of information.
The question for paranoids is if there is a pocket communicator with a physical radio switch and an information hiding protocol for authorizing access to the network (rather than using a fixed serial number like all the phone companies do).
And I'd just like to actually have control over my own phone. Right now, it's Google, Apple, or MS. Google is the "free-est", but exacts their cost with your data.
What I'd like, is something like a cut and dry Linux. The cell phone would be its own group, and you could add users to different groups and hardware, just like Debian or CentOS.
I would also like to be able to create comprehensive dialer programs, that could route calls depending on incoming data, record audio, pipe audio via PulseAudio and things I can normally do with Linux right now.
But in the best of situations, I'm forced to choose 3 of "Crap"... And hope I chose right so I can at least jailbreak (in reality, owning my device- it's not Apple's or Microsoft's).
Supposedly you can get fbdev on a lot of Nexus phones working with just the kernels from Google, I don't know about all the radio and audio stuff though.
So, on a "completely" different topic, does anyone know of reasonably priced Linux phones (not Android)?