The scary part is that you might not know when you're being 'tracked'... Say one of your friends gets the phone but you don't know it's a smarty-pants phone. If they hang around with you a lot of the time suddenly They know where you are.
I just find it strange that in time of security paranoia we still seem to broadcast so much information about ourselves without thinking about it. For example, I bought a set of headphones the other day and was asked my phone number and post code (zip code). Now why do they need to know that?
I hate to be funny about this but having read the recent BBC article I'm not so sure if Japan is the right example to follow. A country that has a problem with organised suicide does not seem, to me, to be providing a healthy atmosphere to live in. Please correct me if I'm wrong...
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The scary part is that you might not know when you're being 'tracked'... Say one of your friends gets the phone but you don't know it's a smarty-pants phone. If they hang around with you a lot of the time suddenly They know where you are.
I just find it strange that in time of security paranoia we still seem to broadcast so much information about ourselves without thinking about it. For example, I bought a set of headphones the other day and was asked my phone number and post code (zip code). Now why do they need to know that?
I hate to be funny about this but having read the recent BBC article I'm not so sure if Japan is the right example to follow. A country that has a problem with organised suicide does not seem, to me, to be providing a healthy atmosphere to live in. Please correct me if I'm wrong...