Re: Cellphone / GPS tracking services ... big brother, or mom, or wife ... is watching

From: H.W. Stockman (stockman3_at_earth-REMOVE_THIS-link.net)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 21:32:03 GMT

"JGS" <jgs123@comcast^dot^net> wrote in message
news:hv6bt0h90826nuuap7mln6mr8f2eb25cn9@4ax.com...
[...]
> I have to agree with Alan. I don't like the constant invasions of privacy
> whether they come from a GPS tracking device (work related is fine by me),
> an in automobile flight data recorder (I won't own a GM auto), grocery
store
> discount cards that record forever your shopping habits, or the simple
fact
> that 90% of the computers on the net today are infected with some form of
> adware or spyware.

I don't mind the possible invasions of privacy, possibly because my
cellphones are turned off the vast majority of the time. I turn one on when
I need to make a call, or am on a mountaintop. I'd love to have a GPS chip
in the phone; but for now, I'll settle for giving 911 the coordinates off my
GPS, or will rely on the old tower triangulation method (which has been
around for a long time, and is adequate to tell someone his daughter is 10
miles from where she should be).

For people who leave their cellphones on all the time, I have a hard time
reconciling their desire for privacy, with the fact that I can now hear
intimate details of their lives, and they seem to be willing to take and
send phone calls while driving, jaywalking, cutting in front of you in the
fast food line, stopping dead in the middle of supermarket aisles, eating
dinner at a (formerly) quiet restaurant, etc.

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