I don't have much to hide, and as a journalist, I'm frequently exposed anyway, so I don't worry much about privacy. Extreme concerns about privacy are a modern phenomenon in my opinion. There was a time when people sought close contact with others for protection. Too much privacy was dangerous.
Paul On Dec 19, 2012, at 7:15 PM, Gerrit Visser <gerrit...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
