I don't want ANYONE to know where I am, unless I WANT them to know where I am. eg:
Permit: 1) E911 and Feds (The feds will find you anyway, even if cell phone tracking is somehow made illegal by voters.. they'll find a loophole...) 2) Perhaps a close friend, and then only if they are within a couple of blocks (The distance from the requester should be adjustable by the user, so for example, if I'm in a bar, I don't want a friend tracking me down and then ruining my good time... They shouldn't know unless the person is 5 feet away, close enough for visual ID. This option would be reinforced by completely denying some folks...) 3) Parents could track their kids... (As much as I do not like this idea, I don't think a cell phone location tracking system could exist without the parents-spying-on-kids part)
But: Without a mandatory client side (yes/no) option, EVERY time you recieve a 'ping', in the event the system is compromised, location tracking would be abused. Maybe a good implementation would be for E911 to send a token that would timeout and automatically report the location after 15 seconds. As for the Feds: There's no stopping them. In the event of a parental unit requesting their child's location: As mentioned somewhere above, if the child says no, they'll have some serious explaining to do later.
Deny: 1) Whomever one wants to, including spammers and E911 services..
Of course any sort of permit/deny list should be able to be modified by the end user and the end user only.
If you let corporations (or private businesses) run the drug trade, the govt can control them.
A few words: Microsoft, Enron, tobacco companies, etc - Do you really think the government can control them?
This is a _Bad_ idea. If anything like this became law, instantly, the government can fine/arrest someone for trivial things.. like hosting a web page.. or running an SSH server that circumvents "network security." Next thing you know, your grandma is going to jail for failing to patch her system.
While we're at it, maybe we should create a bill that requires anyone who runs an alternative OS (read: Not Windows) to be fined/computers seized/computer "privileges" taken away/etc. because their system is not "secure"...
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I don't want ANYONE to know where I am, unless I WANT them to know where I am. eg:
Permit:
1) E911 and Feds (The feds will find you anyway, even if cell phone tracking is somehow made illegal by voters.. they'll find a loophole...)
2) Perhaps a close friend, and then only if they are within a couple of blocks (The distance from the requester should be adjustable by the user, so for example, if I'm in a bar, I don't want a friend tracking me down and then ruining my good time... They shouldn't know unless the person is 5 feet away, close enough for visual ID. This option would be reinforced by completely denying some folks...)
3) Parents could track their kids... (As much as I do not like this idea, I don't think a cell phone location tracking system could exist without the parents-spying-on-kids part)
But: Without a mandatory client side (yes/no) option, EVERY time you recieve a 'ping', in the event the system is compromised, location tracking would be abused. Maybe a good implementation would be for E911 to send a token that would timeout and automatically report the location after 15 seconds. As for the Feds: There's no stopping them. In the event of a parental unit requesting their child's location: As mentioned somewhere above, if the child says no, they'll have some serious explaining to do later.
Deny:
1) Whomever one wants to, including spammers and E911 services..
Of course any sort of permit/deny list should be able to be modified by the end user and the end user only.
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If you let corporations (or private businesses) run the drug trade, the govt can control them. A few words: Microsoft, Enron, tobacco companies, etc - Do you really think the government can control them?
This is a _Bad_ idea. If anything like this became law, instantly, the government can fine/arrest someone for trivial things.. like hosting a web page.. or running an SSH server that circumvents "network security." Next thing you know, your grandma is going to jail for failing to patch her system.
While we're at it, maybe we should create a bill that requires anyone who runs an alternative OS (read: Not Windows) to be fined/computers seized/computer "privileges" taken away/etc. because their system is not "secure"...
But what about the sound - When I'm riding my bike, I don't want to listen to the constant loud, annoying drone of a motor.