On 03/06/2011 2:04 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
Actually, every time you move from the footprint of one cell tower to
another, the phone company *has* to know this, so they can know where
to route incoming calls. So it is absolutely the case that your phone
company knows where you are and where you've been. Here are a bunch
of questions that I bet you don't know the answer to:
- do they keep that info?
- for how long?
- if a law-enforcement agency calls up and asks for it, unofficially,
no warrant, do they cough it up?
- if a divorce lawyer calls and asks, can he/she get it?
I'm a lot more worried about telephone companies than I am about
mobile-industry players like Apple. -Tim
I'm not so worried about it in Canada, the CRTC and the Privacy Act seem
to have most, if not all, of the bases covered.
I did just discover that SGI hands over data to the War Amps to
facilitate their solicitation attempts.
I suspect that will get shut down though, as there is being a bit of a
hue and cry about SGI breaking the privacy rules.
--
William Robb
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