On Friday 06 July 2007 15:05, cedric cellier wrote: > -[ Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:30:48PM -0400, Paul Wouters ]---- > > > Especially, an implementation of the Pierre protocol would be > > interesting. In essence, using the protocol, two people can > > reveal each others location but only when they are close to > > each other. > > I don't see why one user would not want to reveal his location, because > he already send it regularly, although less precisely, to his telco > because that's how GSM works. AFAIK, telcos are then free to use this > information commercialy and forced to give all details to the cops when > asked to, so I don't see how this app could make things worst.
In the EU they collect this, but they can't give it to a 3rd party without obtaining your informed consent. Law enforcement can demand access to this and your call/text/IP records under certain curcumstances, though the circumstances are getting wider and the level of oversight lower. > Did I miss something ? At the moment the telcos don't seem to be making their subscribers' locations freely available. If they did I would probably keep my phone turned off until I needed it, because I don't trust everybody to be nice. Location-based marketing would be annoying. A thief being able to check I was away before breaking into my house would be worse. > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
