Cell phone tracking is entirely all invasive. The police can request from your provider, without your knowledge, all cell tower data for months at a time plus all your CDR's. I have seen the clear-text trouble tickets! An even bigger issue is that the processing of CDRs and cell tower data is often sub contracted to another company who does the billing. So now you have 2 companies and 2 sets of employees that have access to your data. And all too often, in NA, the company running the billing system is not US or Canadian. Given the propensity for warrantless access laws, at least in NA, you have a major opportunity to leak data. And of course open to abuse, you can imagine that less ethical groups might just have someone on the inside.
If you watched the TED segment, you will know just how detailed that view is. They tracked him on train, bus, etc. So, the benefit of e911 is rather offset by what you give up. Gerrit -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: December 19, 2012 6:50 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT- Instagram now has right to sell your photos... Right, cell phone tracking is not all pervasive nor always entirely evil. If I dial 911, I *want* them to know where I am ... just not enough replace a telephone that already works. From: Paul Stenquist > It would be good if someone kept track of where I am in case I forget. > > Paul > On Dec 19, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Matthew Hunt <m...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:29 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: >> >>> How are they going to know where I am if I can barely get service >>> from one tower? >> >> At least conceivably, beamforming antenna arrays at the tower (for >> azimuth), and round-trip signal delay (for the range). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
