GPS Cellphone Tracking - Track Anyone Anytime Anywhere

Gig 601XL Builder wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:
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Gig 601XL Builder wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote:
Doug wrote:
The police in the US can do it. And you don't have to be talking on
your cellphone, it just has to be on. They need the cooperation of
the cellphone company, and that is SUPPOSED to requre a warrant (I
believe). All cellphones sold in US have a GPS chip. This does not
mean your cell phone has GPS navigation. They have sold all of this
because of the 911 desire to locate a 911 caller. But it's another
Big Brother item as well.

If you are concerned about this sort of thing, you really should
contribute to the ACLU. They fight abuse of this sort of stuff
better than anyone.


ALL CELL PHONES IN THE US DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE A GPS CHIP.

All cell phones will have to conform to a E911 standard. Of the big
boys Verizon, Sprint and Alltel are using a version that uses GPS.
AT&T is using one that uses triangulation.

As more people use cell phones as their only phone line having E911
available is important.

While the ability to use your cell phone to find you will be
enhanced with E911. Don't think for a second that the government
could not have done it and did do it before E911.

Everyone knows that the only way to protect yourself from Big
Brother is to wear a tin foil hat.

Yes, but to get onto a carrier's service that chose GPS, you must have
a GPS enabled phone.

The practical result of that will be that eventually it will be
difficult if not impossible to buy a phone in the US without GPS.


No, you will be able to buy one from one of the largest companies in the US.
AT&T.

Assuming AT&T doesn't sell off its wireless division AGAIN and AT&T
doesn't jump fully into its announced parterships with carriers going
the GPS route and someone is willing to make phones that only work
with non-GPS carriers which are a fraction of the US market now.

I wouldn't put money on that bet.

None GPS phones will go away because of market forces, not regulation,
just like BetaMax, floppy drives (8, 5, or 3 inch, take your pick),
record players, 8 track and eventually ordinary photographic film
as the GPS phones will be more generally usefull.

--
Jim Pennino

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