China watch.

My UHFs are older Uniden although not because of a fear of tracking, that just happens to be what I bought. But no one's triangulating signal hits to figure out where I am. 

But the bigger kicker here is China has zero interest in tracking ME. I'm a middle aged grumpy old bag in regional WA. There's absolutely no material gain to be made from knowing where I am or what I'm doing at any given time. There's very limited gain to tracking me, and even LESS on wasting ordanance on me. It's hilarious to think that anyone's wasting any direct tracking hours on little old me, and while it's a thing that I see around the traps it's something I'll never stop advocating for people to understand. You, me, the general Aussie population who're just living a relatively law abiding life with no links to anything spooky? They're not interested in wasting resources on us. We're simply not important. Knowing and truly understanding that fact leads to a calmer, less stressed life. They just. Don't care. About us. 

The concern with the app specifically is that it's collecting geo data on a smaller scale that could provide fidelity that current doesn't exist from alternate sources without a massive amount of expense. Even Google, who constantly sends ground-based vehicles to take street view imagery, can't achieve the kind of fidelity that a low flying middle-tier domestic drone can provide. There's a real imaging gap between the street level view and the satellite view and that's a gap that I'm not interested in filling for the CCP. Or anyone else. I have no desire to be an unwilling and unwitting collection source for an AI to build a 3d map of my entire country to a more accurate level.

So I don't give a flip if the CCP wants to waste resources tracking me. Although they aren't. At least, not at any smaller of a level than they do the macro tracking that they'd have on any major nation. But providing tactical information on my region just because I wanted to be able to set a drone to do a few laps of my area to check out bushfires etc, is absolutely not on my bingo card for 2024. Also, my car was manufactured in Vietnam. Does that make it foolproof? Heck no. But my concern here is the CCP filling their intel gaps using tech that's proven to be leaky and removed from the market due to security concerns. We can't possibly know and identify every single source that might make the bad guys lives more difficult. But if we're aware of specific ones it only makes sense to reduce that risk.