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Man Stalks Ex-girlfriend With GPS
grouchomarxist writes "According to this article at CNN: Police arrested a man they said tracked his ex-girlfriend's whereabouts by attaching a global positioning system to her car. Police said Gabrielyan attached a cellular phone to the woman's car on August 16 with a motion switch that turned on when the car moved, transmitting a signal each minute to a satellite. Information was then sent to a Web site that allowed Gabrielyan to monitor the woman's location." A ruling last year stated that police need a warrant to track individuals in a similar fashion.
I need to get one for my girlfriend's car. Alright, she's not my girlfriend, yet, but she will be once I'm able to track her 24/7.
See, this is exactly why we need fuel cells in our phones...I mean...eh...this is just wrong and illegal...
It actually sounds like a neat project, just a sketchy application. I wonder if its legal to attach one to, say, your child's car. Perhaps make the sensor a bit less sensitive, so it only broadcasts a signal after an impact-type shock.
"Because Science" is one step from "Because old book". Try "Because of my experiment testing my falsifiable assertion".
All this and he couldn't figure out how to hook the thing up to the car battery?
This has also been covered briefly on Engadget and more thoroughly on BoingBoing, where links to the original article and the District Attorney's report are provided.
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"transmitting a signal each minute to a satellite." WOW - this guy had a SATELLITE too? ...Why does the News continually report GPS technology as sending data TO a satellite - GPS receivers are completely passive.
Either our media/news is completely ignorant, or they assume that all their readers are completely ignorant.
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>The woman learned how Gabrielyan was following her when she discovered him under her car attempting to change the cell phone's battery, police said.
This is a perfect metaphor for the 21 century... Hyped futuristic capabilities with obvious and forgotten shortcomings. 12v line from the power system, anyone?
If you are going to be compulsively obsessed to the exclusion of all else, at least sweat the details.
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After a bad breakup with my car insurance company recently, they're doing the same
Any instructions on how to set one of these up? Sounds like the only improvement necessary was a hookup to the car battery. Duh! Also, don't phones these days have GPS or something like it built in, that locates the phone based on triangulation with cell towers? If you used that you could do away with the GPS unit altogether, and just need a motion switch to trigger a program on the phone that texts the location - or just make it transmit at intervals.
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Dozens? After about the first six she should have gotten a restraining order.
Hey, combine this with the little black boxes Progressive Insurance has been pushing, and you too can have your insurance revoked in real-time while driving!
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That's what happens when you read posts like this one while trying to tie up your yacht at the dock in the middle of Hurricane Frances. I'd provide a link but I can't seem to find any clips from that video on the Web. If you've seen any news in the last 36 hours, you'll know what video I'm talking about, though.
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See this archive on The Smoking Gun from a man arrested for doing the same thing in 2002. I guess someone else just took the hint and tried it again 2 years later.
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"Meet Paul Seidler. The 42-year-old Wisconsin man was just busted on charges that he conducted a high-tech stalking campaign directed at a former girlfriend. Kenosha police allege that Seidler placed a Global Positioning System tracking device under the hood of the woman's car and began monitoring her movements."
Hey, it's a slow weekend, so I think a near-dupe of not-so-cutting-edge news is forgivable
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
...is so important. There are LEGITIMATE REASONS to not want to have a tracking device in your car, not just tinfoil hat paranoia. Sure there may be "privacy protections" but keep in mind that a company's privacy is only as strong as the minimum wage employee who's bribed $100 to let a stalker have some info.
Every time I read one of these stories of a guy wigging out because his girlfriend dumped him, I always think, "Hey, Chief, do ya think she was on to something?" I mean, girl dumps boy. Boy stalks her using GPS. Maybe she was onto something in dumping him?
A NYC lawyer blogs. http://www.chuangblog.com/
Geeks are 100% dedicated to a relationship and will go that extra mile.
Oh, and also: Phear the g33k!
Yet it is illegal for a private citizen to follow someone in public. What is with the double standard?
Yeah, it'll be called "Fearer Dot Com"
He's not a very good stalker if he was under her car changing the battery to the cell-phone!
I mean, he could of spent a little time and hooked it up to the car battery (it's possible) and on TOP of that, he could have used a phone that auto-accepts incoming calls when a hands-free headset is used, and just short the HF plug-in spot to make the phone think one is plugged in.. and
whalla, you have a tracker/voice-listener thingy-ma-jigger!
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attaching a global positioning system to her car.
He created and attached an entire global positioning system of satellites to her car? Now that's impressive! I wonder how she didn't notice...
This got me wondering, though. What if, for example, I was to do something like this to my wife's car? I own the car, right? So I should be able to modify it (within safety concerns of course) how I see fit.
Not that I'm saying I'd stalk my own wife, or anything. I'm just wondering what makes stalking one's girlfriend fundamentally different than stalking, say, one's wife.
"Information was then sent to a Web site that allowed Gabrielyan to monitor the woman's location."
Link?
I never saw fear.com, but I kept wondering whether the lethal website had been created with Microsoft FrontPage.
Where can I find a boyfriend who actually cares where I am?
They also arrest and execute criminals.
No civilized governments do that. Civilized governments arrest and prosecute criminals. Then according to what fits the bill best, they fine, jail or give them proper psychological treatment.
Do you live in some barbaric third world country where torture and imprisonment without fair trials are still part of the legal system too?
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No one here actually believes that you are a woman.
That's OK. My gynecologist does.
Now think of the capabilities these technologies gave the Nazi propagandists of the 1930s and 1940s.
There's a dark side to every new technology. For a small class of people, technological advances will always represent only fantastic new ways to wage war, or to harrass and murder their fellow man.That was a ruling by the Washington State Supreme Court (the state I live in) and I remember reading about it. This ruling has no effect in the other 49 states or on the Feds. While the ruling may influence other judges, the Washington State Constitution generally has more citizen friendly rules on privacy and related matters than the U. S. Constitution or most state constitutions, which may narrow the applicability of the reasoning in this case to other judicial venues.
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And it doesn't bother them.
I've talked with teenagers about what it means when their cell phone has GPS. They're not bothered by having their location reported. They like the idea of knowing where all their friends are. Then they'd know who's nearby, and could hook up. It's a feature.
But so I could _NOT_ run into her.
I kept running into her with my new girlfriend (obtained after the breakup with the wife). It was awkward, to say the least...
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She didnt say she didn't have a boyfriend, she said she wanted to know where you could get one that would care where she was. Clearly she has a boyfriend whose trust in her she interprets as indifference.
Too bad.
No. Your point being?
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You must have a lot of courage. Making a gynecologist believe that you are a woman sounds scary.
"Hey, what is that?"
"Dunno. Never saw one on any of my patients before. Remove it."
And every trip you take...
Restraining orders I'll break...
Don't you try and fake...
I AM WATCHING YOU
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Do you know what they do? You're thinking of an obstrecian (sp), who handle pregnancies. Gyns do routine check-ups and handle anything else related to feminine sexual health, which can affect a woman regardless of relationship status.
Geez, you geeks really are clueless.
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Here's a hint: next time a guy takes the time to get to know you and is actually a nice guy, don't brush him off with the 'I see you as a friend' routine while you fall in love with the first unemployed alcoholic that crosses your path.
One night while doing some shift work (6PM-6AM), one of my co-workers went home for "lunch" at 2AM. He found that his wife wasn't home and, worse, had left their 4 year old son unattended. This was the second time that had happened, so he decided to investigate. The next time we were working night shifts, he put a GPS under a blanket that happened to be in the back of their hatchback. Twelve hours later (again after his wife hadn't been home at "lunchtime") he retrieved the GPS. He followed the recorded track around, and then along with a few friends, staked out the route the next time we were on mids. One of them spotted her in a parking lot and videotaped her from a distance for the next few hours. He contacted the cops (this being an military base and overseas) and turned over the tape. The police investigated, determined she was running a prostitution ring, and had her deported back to her country of origin. My co-worker was able to both successfuly divorce her and get custody of the child.
If you don't have damages, why would you complain? Why would it make the news?
The FBI was tracking MLK and even harrassing him. What about that?
What am I afraid of? At the worst, political blackmail on a large scale.
Everyone has somthing to hide. Imagine a scenario where those who go against the powers that be will be outed and exposed, just like in the Soviet Union. Everyone had a skeleton in their closet. In the USSR, it was only outed if you did the politically wrong thing. Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" has a nice description of this on a personal level near the end. It only has to happen if a person is likely to come into a position of power. Everyone else's files are just "insurance."
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An eye for a fucking eye.
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