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[Tanner Lovelace <lovelace AT wayfarer.org>]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> The privacy implications are there anyway with the E-911 service, which
> will result in GPS receivers in all cell phones.  Why would adding this
> additional service be an more of a "privacy implication" ?  The cell
> phone companies will already have full access to exactly where their
> customers are.
>
> The real question is how the courts will treat this -- will they be very
> careful in allowing subpeonas for this information?

Well, currently it tracks where you are currently, but, afaik,
doesn't do "dead reckoning" to determine where you went when
you leave cell coverage, or track your path as you move through
the cells.  For this to work to make a map of dead cell coverage,
they'd have to make basically a path of where you went.  Knowing
where you are at any given instant is bad enough without them
having your entire history already there.  How soon, btw, before
some divorce lawyer supoena's this information to tell where a
"cheating" spouse was at any given time?  Or what route they took
home?

Cheers,
Tanner
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