Tracking your phone
Tiredtraveler
Solo PL
I just heard on the news of yet another way to track your phone and thereby you.
They now have developed a way to track exactly where you are by the power signature of your phone even when your GPS feature is turned off. I feel about this just like I feel about back box tracking in cars. There is a push to have black boxes(already in many cars to one extent or another) so the cops can plug in to prove you have ever been over the speed limit etc. Car manufacturers want them to " monitor " potential operation problems. Not to sound paranoid but do I really want some faceless government official knowing when I stop at a club or a cop knowing I stopped at the liquor store or the gun shop and using that information to crucify me. Information is power and the government already has to much power.
They now have developed a way to track exactly where you are by the power signature of your phone even when your GPS feature is turned off. I feel about this just like I feel about back box tracking in cars. There is a push to have black boxes(already in many cars to one extent or another) so the cops can plug in to prove you have ever been over the speed limit etc. Car manufacturers want them to " monitor " potential operation problems. Not to sound paranoid but do I really want some faceless government official knowing when I stop at a club or a cop knowing I stopped at the liquor store or the gun shop and using that information to crucify me. Information is power and the government already has to much power.
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And it will get worse from here. Soon we'll have chips floating inside our bodies to monitor out health and whereabouts 24/7.
Just get used to it.
Big brother will ONLY watch more, never less!
Anyone who thinks bigger government is smarter and more efficient either has his head up his ass, has never worked for the government, or both.
I vote for any party that gives citizens more freedoms and is fiscally responsible.
I also worry about lack of privacy in the 21st century. But if you want the benefits of modern technology, intrusion in your privacy is unavoidable unless people make it quite clear what they're not willing to put up with. We do have some laws in place not but obviously it's a constant battle.
If you have GPS in your car, it's probably also recording where you've been. Most will allow you to delete the tracking information.
And it’s no only the phone’s GPS; although GPS is way more exact as to one’s location; one’s cell ph is constantly communicating with the nearest cell ph tower (even when not in use) and thus they can track one’s movements that way.
Even if one’s cell ph is turned off; it can still be turned on remotely w/o the user even knowing it – AFAIK taking out the battery is the only way to truly disconnect one’s cell ph and that may perhaps even have a workaround.
Otherwise, worry more about corporations. They actually have the resources and incentive to use this information and technology.
My (now ex) wife used to track my phone. Thereby my whereabouts.
I had to power it off completely to make sure it couldn't be tracked. It's a brave new world we live in today.
Sometimes I wonder/think about just going off the grid and disappearing so no one can find you.
It seems like people would have better things to do than constantly be wanting to know what someone else is doing, where they are, etc. Because I could care less what someone else is doing. I can keep myself entertained without being all up in someone else's business. lol.
But thats just me.
"In the future, Americans will submit, succumb and surrender in order to survive". - Henry Kissinger 1972
this bitch is in a tailspin headed toward a socialist psychotic dystopian prison state and you'd better consider dusting off the AK's before it’s too late.
Not life and death for you to use a wireless device?..........pitch it.........tracking problem solved.
I disagree. First off, increased surveillance will increase the number of people caught for existing crimes. If there does come a reduction in crime because of this, lawmakers never seem to have trouble making more things illegal. They do it now, with*out* the surveillance, imagine what they'll do when they can watch everybody. They'll see things that will trigger their "we must protect somebody by forbidding that" reflex.
"which should mean reduction in the police and correctional officers helping balance the budge."
You're joking right? Police and correctional organizations are profitable businesses these days. There's no way politicians are going to willingly reduce one of their best revenue generators, and that's assuming the police unions would permit it!
The only way to counter the uptick in surveillance by government is to engage in your own "sousviellance", a word that was coined, I believe, by David Brin, the SF author. "Watch the watchers". Record the police and other government officials in the performance of their duties.
On another site, I saw a former director of the CIA posting on the same thread as me. We must be interested in the same stuff.