Martin Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >I must be missing something here, but why would anyone be interested in >knowing where I am and where I've been? > >Or perhaps I should ask why would anyone be worried about Them knowing >where they are or where they've been?
You *are* missing something. As others have sort-of said, They want to know where you've been so They can, er, contact you if something happened there while you were around that They didn't like. And if They then decide you had anything to do with it, then They may feel perfectly justified in removing some or all of your assets or liberty. "Phil & Anne Irons" <[email protected]> wrote: >Here in Canada, the Canadian Radio & Television Commission (CRTC), who >oversee issuing of commercial broadcast licences, mobile phones and the >like, have just told mobile phone providers that they have one year in which >to upgrade the emergency 911 service to allow the determination of a >caller's location by triangulation from the nearest mobile cell towers. Of course, the CRTC has also made sure that each phone has a switch so the phone's user can disable the triangulation function when he is not in an emergency situation, then? <ha ha ha> "Roger Millin" <[email protected]> wrote: >We've suffered a creeping increase in >surveillance of the innocent population for years now and there has >to be a limit line drawn somewhere. Roger, we haven't yet seen the half of it yet. How long before we are all required to have RFID implants? Technically feasible now, and less costly every year. Have you ever read any of Harry Harrison's "Stainless Steel Rat" books? One envisaged such an implant (called an "actijot" IIRC) with a punishment feature , would could be remotely triggered to deliver a very painful shock to the nervous system whenever a citizen was deemed to be misbehaving. The implant was mandatorily installed at birth, and was so small that it was impossible for the citizen to find (for removal purposes) in his body later without special equipment (which he was forbidden access to). Extreme? sounds so now, but as you point out the situation is changing incrementally. Remember the fable about the frog in the saucepan? <exits, shaking head slowly> Adrian . Adrian Stott 07956-299966
