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Using the GPS Features of Your Cell Phone?

Posted by Cliff on from the everyone-else-knows-my-coords-why-can't-I dept.

travik asks: "I use a Nokia 3650. The cell phone already knows my co-ordinates (E911 service). It has Bluetooth. Why can't I send the coordinates using Bluetooth to my laptop, and use a mapping application to give me my location and directions to where i want to go. I've searched Google and also read up on old posts, no one seems to be doing it. Why?"

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  1. Re:E911 isn't really GPS by 0x0d0a · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    E911 is scary. Among other things:

    * Tracking where you make your calls from.

    * Constant logging of everywhere you go and travel through your life to within 100 feet.

    * Rembember the FBI getting the ability to grab library reading records, and mkaing it illegal for librarians to disclose that information? It'd be easy to do the same thing with private citizens ("Okay, you're the closest person to the area we want to monitor. Now look to the right. Is there a blond man possibly exchanging a bag with a woman wearing a red skirt? Yes? Thank you for your time. Remember that disclosing that we have asked for this information is a felony under federal law." It's just too easy to abuse.

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