I don't think it's all doom and gloom, there are plenty of instances where the people have nullified the state's intentions and this will be no different. Let me just list a few here:
Cuba: It doesn't matter how many land lines you lock down, people want to watch Game of Thrones.
United States: It doesn't matter how many distilleries/dispensaries you close down, people want to drink and smoke.
China: It doesn't matter how many children the state says you can have, people want to have children.
The dystopia always emerges from the extremes states take to quell people's wants/needs, and almost always nabs the weakest or most brazen "criminals". There is a inexplicable beauty to this dynamic, individual wit versus collective bueracracy, that I admittedly find romantic.
In this case, individuals might start putting their phones in the fridge overnight, putting their phones in RF blocking sleeves (or just plain aluminum foil as seen in HK), or like you said, just plain leaving their phones at home.
If the state forces phones to act as a form of identity or requires a phone in public, all it takes is one edge case of "Old man without phone brutalized by police" for concessions to the rule. Would you be arrested for not charging your phone? What about if you have an older model? How would the state respond to a hacked version of the identity app being propagated?
The fractal of side effects expands as you attempt to answer each one of these questions, and that's why people need to believe the requirements are just and appropriate, unless of course your response is so over the top and totalitarian that only the most viciously clever and brave step up and challenge it.
Cuba: It doesn't matter how many land lines you lock down, people want to watch Game of Thrones.
United States: It doesn't matter how many distilleries/dispensaries you close down, people want to drink and smoke.
China: It doesn't matter how many children the state says you can have, people want to have children.
The dystopia always emerges from the extremes states take to quell people's wants/needs, and almost always nabs the weakest or most brazen "criminals". There is a inexplicable beauty to this dynamic, individual wit versus collective bueracracy, that I admittedly find romantic.
In this case, individuals might start putting their phones in the fridge overnight, putting their phones in RF blocking sleeves (or just plain aluminum foil as seen in HK), or like you said, just plain leaving their phones at home.
If the state forces phones to act as a form of identity or requires a phone in public, all it takes is one edge case of "Old man without phone brutalized by police" for concessions to the rule. Would you be arrested for not charging your phone? What about if you have an older model? How would the state respond to a hacked version of the identity app being propagated?
The fractal of side effects expands as you attempt to answer each one of these questions, and that's why people need to believe the requirements are just and appropriate, unless of course your response is so over the top and totalitarian that only the most viciously clever and brave step up and challenge it.