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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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  1. Re:Not good. by orthogonal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As a civil libertarian, I have no problems with this technology being used to track children

    As a civil libertarian, do you have a problem with
    newlines

    or separate paragraphs?

    As a fellow civil libertarian, I suggest that you'll get your message read by more people if it's not one continuous block of text.

  2. Re:Triangulation by rokzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    please name a single thing in the whole world that ISN'T "potentially valuable to abusers"