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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. Why is this news? by jkitchel · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It's called triangulation. As long as a signal is sent wirelessly, it can be done. Seriously, if the slashdot crowd hasn't recognized this capability and its uses and misuses by now, I would honestly question the brain power of the readership.

    Again, why is this news?