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Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You

Posted by michael on from the payphones-growing-scarce dept.

PollGuy writes "I had never heard until this article in the New York Times (sacrifice of first born required) about services that let regular people track the locations of other regular people via their cell phones. Nor this: 'A federal mandate that wireless carriers be able to locate callers who dial 911 automatically by late 2005 means that millions of phones already keep track of their owners' whereabouts.'"

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  1. I Need a Cellphone to be Tracked? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The only thing this changes is the ability for people to hunt down and beat prankers, I see no great problem with that. Does anyone else?

  2. Leaving cell phone off is not enough by Esteanil · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Even if your cell phone is off, the police can still turn on the microphone and listen to what's going on in the room, which would presumeably also allow triangulation.
    Take the battery out if you want to stay safe, only thing that works.

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  3. Re:Not good. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't care if you are a civil engineer. Your post is a bloody fucking mess that I won't even bother to read. Learn to put some paragraph breaks in next time. Most folks can't be bothered wasting their time reading ugly globs of diarrhea text like that.

  4. Re:not new. by ameoba · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What if I am screwing *your* wife; do you -really- want to see that?

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