you can be tracked with any mobile phone. That's why al-Qaeda don't use them. They tend to attract missiles.
B > > There's a pulldown menu at the top of the screen. I can manually turn > the gps on and off from there. If it's off my Google maps and similar > programmes won't work. > > I leave it off unless needed to run a programme both for power use and > reasons of paranoia. ;-) > > I don't know if I can be "tracked" with it off. I hope not. > > Cheers, > frank > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> > Sent: December 28, 2011 12/28/11 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Bad news for Frank > > > > On 12/28/2011 1:52 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > > > > On Dec 28, 2011, at 12:49 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > >> Paul, the boogie man will probably never show up at your door. Mine > neither. > >> > >> And yes, some of the things my android (powered by Google) can do > for me are nothing short of miraculous. > >> > >> That doesn't mean I want information about me floating around out > there to be used by anyone who gets their hands on it. That's why I > turn off my gps when I'm not using it. > > > > As far as I know, the GPS is always on, but it's only seen by you > when the relevant software is being used. Could be wrong abut that, but > I can't imagine whey the phone would switch it off. > > Nope, the GPS is a big power drain. It's only on when specific apps > turn it on. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (from dos4est) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
