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[Tanner Lovelace <lovelace AT wayfarer.org>]

Ilan Volow wrote:

> Probably the easiest solution that non-geeks would actually use (because 
> it requires no activity on their part) would be the cell phone 
> automatically recording when and where it hit a dead zone, and then at 
> some point when it gets in contact with a working cell to automatically 
> transmit that data to the cellular provider.
>
> To evade the catch-22 of needing a signal to record the location of a 
> signal that doesn't exist, you'd either have to rely on the cell phone's 
> GPS (which most phones don't yet have) or have the phone record the last 
> location it had a viable signal. With enough people's phones 
> automatically sending in data on the last location where their phones 
> had a decent signal, the cellular providers can average that data out 
> and get a rough idea as to the shape of the dead zone.

Of course the privacy implications of this are just incredible.
Do you really want the cell phone companies knowing exactly where
you went?  It's bad enough now with the new mandated 911 service.

Cheers,
Tanner
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