Cell Tracking on the Rise

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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday February 5, 2006 @10:23PM from the it's-ten-o'clock-do-you-know-where-your-pants-are dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting that with the recent advances in cell phone tracking tech more and more companies are using it to keep track of their employee's movements. From the article: 'The gains, say the converted, are many, ranging from knowing whether workers have been "held up" in the pub rather than in a traffic jam, to being able to quickly locate staff and reroute them if necessary. Not everybody is happy about being monitored, however, and civil rights group Liberty says the growth of tracking raises data privacy concerns.'"

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OUTGOING by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-05 22:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Not a shrinking trend by WheelDweller · 2006-02-05 23:51 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I know most of you could give a rat's ass, but this has been planned for quite a long time. This is going to get more pervasive, not less. This is a process that started in 1948, when several changes happened: the development of the transistor, and re-establishment of Isreal being just two of'em.

"Big Brother" is coming, like it or not; it's not a hunch or an instinct, it's a scriptural fact. 2650 years ago, when a similar situation was underway with Emperor Nero, Ezikiel scrawled prophecy. (It's probably where TheAdversary got the idea)

Back then, it was thought Nero was the AntiChrist; but he had no RFIDs, no cellphones, no CCTV and no way to conduct world-wide commerce....or deny it...to people not 'flying his flag'. That's gonna happen in about 10 years or less.

It presents us with a slippery slope, where so many honest, workaday-types appreciate the benefits, and the people with the most money (places like WalMart and huge trucking firms) will save so much money they *can't* ignore it.

So nay-say all ya want, but we're on a schedule here...and there's no more changing this reality than killing Hitler when he was a corporal in WW1, to avoid WW2. Make your peace; think things through...and get used to it, 'cause it's not going back to the Bonnie & Clyde days where a duo can rob a bank on one side of town, then cross town to rob another, and be out of town before the police know about it.

"[There'll] come a day where there's no room for naughty men like us to slip about." --Malcom Reynolds, Serenity

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You all *do* realize in the fictional Star Trek by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-06 02:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

world, everybody wears communicator pins that allow them to be tracked, including pulse, etc. at all times and the main computer can activate the pin, listen in and transcribe everything that is said. The Federation database also appears to have a comprehensive, permanent record of everyone, including everything they've said in public. You never ever hear them talk about data retention limits or purges -- so is all whereabout, speech, telemetry data archived forever? They can sequence your DNA down to the subatomic level and predict exactly what illnesses you will be susceptible to, and genetically engineer out most of them.

And yet this is the world many of you fantasize about living in. Every week they fight for and babble on and on about the inalienable rights of aliens. How could anyone not believe they would use the ship's monitoring cameras to see each other's poker hands and use the Holodeck for Orion slave-girl porn reenactments?

It's called 'cognitive dissonance'. To paraphrase the 'Ten Commandments' quote/infamous website cliche, 'Where is your desirable futuristic utopian society now'?

PS: Enough with the Smirnoff cliche already. In Soviet Russia, Yakov Smirnoff joke laughs at you. And people who quote Ben Franklin instead of saying anything thoughtful and original deserve neither Ben Franklin nor a thoughtful, original quote.