Any time you put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard and create something you have created a copyrighted works. So yes My information IS more important that Miley Cyrus' Croaking. though I would say that most anything is more important than that.
Have they ever needed a warrant to get your address from your landline number? I don't think so... Only for a wiretap, right? What's the difference here?
The difference here is that your land line is static, it does not move. Your cellphone may move and most likely does move around a lot. not only are they making a detailed path of travel that you took. This grants them the ability to create a trail of evidence of where you have been and where you are going in real time, all without a warrant. Additionally it tracks you weather you are in a private residence or a public space, they make no distinction, and can then use that in creating a case of who you talked to. This just makes me want to start using pay phones again, though the problem with that is finding a payphone nowadays.
And last but not least the land line location is used for fire and medical along with police. So if you are having a heart attack while a burglar is lighting your house on fire all the public services can be notified and make it there without having to drive around going, "so which house is it again?"
Most are forgetting to take in to account that some people, and most in Asian countries, ride motorcycles, and or bicycles. This throws a huge wrench into the works causing it to fail. Just watch the Top Gear Vietnam episode to get a feel for what thousands of bikes on a street can do.
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Any time you put pen to paper, or finger to keyboard and create something you have created a copyrighted works. So yes My information IS more important that Miley Cyrus' Croaking. though I would say that most anything is more important than that.
Have they ever needed a warrant to get your address from your landline number? I don't think so... Only for a wiretap, right? What's the difference here?
The difference here is that your land line is static, it does not move. Your cellphone may move and most likely does move around a lot. not only are they making a detailed path of travel that you took. This grants them the ability to create a trail of evidence of where you have been and where you are going in real time, all without a warrant. Additionally it tracks you weather you are in a private residence or a public space, they make no distinction, and can then use that in creating a case of who you talked to. This just makes me want to start using pay phones again, though the problem with that is finding a payphone nowadays.
And last but not least the land line location is used for fire and medical along with police. So if you are having a heart attack while a burglar is lighting your house on fire all the public services can be notified and make it there without having to drive around going, "so which house is it again?"
Most are forgetting to take in to account that some people, and most in Asian countries, ride motorcycles, and or bicycles. This throws a huge wrench into the works causing it to fail. Just watch the Top Gear Vietnam episode to get a feel for what thousands of bikes on a street can do.
Yes, I can see it now, a 36 hour day.