Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You

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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This just in...

[Anonymous Coward]

Its possible to track the location of people who have landlines too. It's called a phone book.

Offtopic but funny

[Kethinov]

New York Times (sacrifice of first born required)

This just struck me as hillarious. Imagine a newbie to Slashdot reading that line and being like WTF?! because he'd never struggled through any previous articles where NYT registration fubar'd things.

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[XanC]

We're about to hit comment #7777777 (seven sevens). That's got to be lucky!

Hah, BUSTED!

[molo]

Jerold Surdahl, 40, an administrator in a building management office in Centerville, Ohio, said he started using the uLocate service to communicate with colleagues. Now, he is intrigued by the possibility of stashing a location-tracking phone in the trunk of his wife's car.

"I'm not expecting or hoping or wanting to find something, but I would just like to explore the possibilities," Mr. Surdahl said. "I'd tell her about it later."

Umm.. can you say BUSTED? Having your name and your intentions printed in the NYT pretty much ensures your secret is out.

BTW, whats with all these controlling people? Relationships are about trust. If you can't trust someone to tell you where they were, then something more serious is wrong.

-molo

Re:Indeed...

[dilweed]

It's incredibly informative that I bought a phone. How would you have known otherwise?

Hmm..

[Ligur]

We should make cell phones really small.. kinda triangular shaped.. and pin them to our chest! We can have a speakerphone system and voice recognition, you can just tap it and speak!

And now people can go "Computer, locate Liutenant Worf."

Err.

Ingenious use of Cell phone technology

[copper22]

Instead of paying for LoJack for my new car, I'll just sign up for the family plan and leave a cheap Nokia in the trunk.

Re: Turning cellphones off

[some guy I know]

This will cause people to walk around with their cellphones powered down (I know I would) and only activate it for making a call.

If people would turn their cellphones off because they don't want anyone to know that they are at the movies or in a restaraunt, then I'm all for it.