Esti,
 
Yen masalah gadget2-an sih koyone wong endonesa juga nggak kalah, lho
... (mungkin yo soale akeh sing mung gengsi2an) ...
Teknologi GPS sudah jauh berkembang kok terutama ning kota2 besar lah
(Jakarta, Surabaya, Denpasar, Jogja, Medan, dll ...) soale setidaknya
peta kota2 besar cukup lengkap.  Pulisi2 sak iki juga akeh sing
kerjasama karo operator telpon untuk GPS tracking kendaraan mereka.
 
Sing rodo ketinggalan memang luar jawa - maksude pemetaan ning luar Jawa
ki perkembangane lambat banget.  Koyo peta Kalimantan sing soko
Bakosurtanal, sak iki mung skala 1:50.000 thok.  Akhire perusahaan2
(terutama PMA) yo mapping dhewe2 sing lebih detail ...  lha malah hasile
mapping disumbangkan ke Pemda untuk update peta mereka, hehe ...  Ayo
Mas Maryono, kembali ke kampuang untuk melakukan improvement :)
 
Lhah, kok malah ketularan virus bosojowo soko yuke, hehe ...
 
Salam,
ma2k

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of nayarini estiningsih
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 8:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [SMUN 1 Demak] Analisis menarik dari Observer tentang
Google Latitude



hahaha, lucu juga artikelnya...
gini nih, teknologi ada sisi positif dan negatifnya
 
di sini (UK) pemakaian aplikasi GPS, sesederhana google maps, jika
sekedar pengin tahu rute dari titik A ke B makan waktu berapa menit,
sudah sangat umum (nenek2 juga tahu aplikasi ini, hehe). 
 
yg sudah sangat umum lagi sekarang adalah pemakaian SATNAV (satellite
navigation), jika ingin nyetir ke tempat yg kita belum pernah tahu. ini
sangat membantu, jadi ga ada lagi pepatah, malu bertanya sesat di jalan.
aplikasi ini softwarenya sudah mencakup seluruh wilayah eropa barat plus
amerika. ga tahu mungkin negara kayak jepang juga sudah punya SATNAV.
softwarenya berisi seluruh jalan dan tempat-tempat penting (POINT OF
INTEREST), hingga memudahkan kita untuk mencari (misalnya) pom bensin
terdekat saat kita nyetir dan bensin mau habis, di kota yg kita belum
familiar. tinggal pencet tombol2 di screen, informasi dari satelit di
depan mata. 
 
satu lagi yg mulai marak (seperti artikel di bawah), adalah aplikasi GPS
di HP. contohnya: banyak perusahaan yg memberikan fasilitas HP+pulsa ke
karyawannya (di sini banyak karyawan yg boleh kerja dari rumah, termasuk
kantorku), jadi si boss selalu tahu keberadaan karyawannya dg traking
GPS melalui HP. jadi jika misal kita harusnya di London, tapi ternyata
lagi di Birmingham, boss akan tau bahwa kita lagi ga di London, susah
bohong, hahaha
 
pemakaian latitute yg kebanyakan juga serem, jadi ga ada privasi,
terutama buat cewek, bisa bahaya jika ada cowo psycho (stalker), hihi.
banyak kasus sudah terjadi, jadi mending hati-hati. teknologi makin
canggih, penjahatnya juga tambah canggih.
 
oya, kantorku emang lokasinya enak, kalo musim panas bisa makan siang di
deket sungai kecil yg mengalir di sela2 lahan hijau, tenang, bebas
polusi dan sejuk. cuman sekarang lagi salju, jadi ga pas, bisa beku di
luar, hehe. rumah tempat kos-ku yg di sebelah kanan pin. kodepos itu
mencakup seluruh rumah di new school road, jadi pin-nya jatuh di rumah
tetangga sebelah, hehe. kodepos di sini cukup rapi dan akurat, jadi kalo
pengin maen ke rumah teman, tanya kodeposnya saja, pasti sampe depan
rumah tanpa perlu turun mobil, tanya tetangga, atau telpon2an nanya
arah.
 
itu sekilas aplikasi teknologi di UK, dengan memanfaatkan sisi positif
teknologi GPS.
 
esti-UK

 

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From: Hizbullah Arief <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]; jurnalis profetik
<[email protected]>; Tomi Satryatomo <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2009 6:32:05
Subject: [SMUN 1 Demak] Analisis menarik dari Observer tentang Google
Latitude












Taking too much Latitude


http://www.guardian .co.uk/commentis free/2009/ feb/06/google-
privacy-libertyc entral
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/06/google-privacy-libe
rtycentral> 


Some think it's harmless fun, but Google's personal tracking system
could prove deeply sinister


Comments (39)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/06/google-privacy-libe
rtycentral?commentpage=1>  

*       Paul Lewis <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/paullewis> 
*       

        *       Paul Lewis <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/paullewis>

        *       guardian.co. uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk/> , Saturday
7 February 2009 13.00 GMT 
        *       Article history
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/06/google-privacy-libe
rtycentral#history-byline> 

Where are you now? An office, a library, an internet cafe in Calcutta?
Are you somewhere you shouldn't be? Perhaps you're reading this on your
mobile phone after taking the day off work to stomp in the snow? Have
you sneaked away from your desk for a cigarette?

It's a silly question really, because I know where you are. I'm looking
at you now. And not just me, but your family, friends and work
colleagues too. We're all looking at you. Move, and a smiling icon of
your face will glide across a personalised map on our computer screens. 

Anyone who sees Google <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/google> 's
tracking system
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/feb/05/google-mobilephones>
launched this week as nothing more than a cool gadget is playing with
with fire. 

Some have characterised yesterday's critical House of Lords
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/06/surveillance-privacy-dna-datab
ase>  report into the surveillance society by its omissions, such as its
failure to mention government plans to monitor all our calls, emails and
internet use. Doing so is unfair, because the authors probably went as
far as the political context would allow them. 

But it would have been good to read more about the perils of toys
created by Google.

The Google people give their own cute explanation
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Oq-9enE-k>  for what Latitude is all
about. Essentially, though, you can enable people to track you and, in
return, if they're nice, you can watch them too.

The technology uses GPS-equipped Smart phones, or triangulation using
cell towers, or Wifi, but there is really nothing scientifically new
here. The telecoms industry, and others, have been experimenting
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/21/civilliberties.privacy>  with
"location-aware" devices for some time.

Technology blogs are buzzing at the prospect of a new toy, with 10
reasons why Latitude will succeed
<http://thenextweb.com/2009/02/05/ten-reasons-google-latitude-succeed/>
to 10 uses off the top of my head
<http://blogs.computerworld.com/google_latitude_ten_uses_of_the_top_of_m
y_head> . Here are two reasons why Google Latitude is deeply sinister.

The first is highlighted by Privacy
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/privacy>  International, a decent
thinktank that employs wizards to look through the complicated fine
print of invasive technology. On this occasion though, a child could
have stumbled across the "fundamental design problem
<http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-56
3567> ":

Step 1: Pick up someone's phone without them knowing. Maybe you're a
manager who wants to check on a serially late employee. Or a jealous
boyfriend. Or a serial killer. Doesn't matter, just do it. 
Step 2: Enable Google Latitude. 
Step 3: Mask your presence so the owner of the phone doesn't know that
you're watching them. 

But no, Google responds! Latitude's built-in mechanism to prevent
fraudulent use will send text messages to your phone to inform you the
system has been installed. If, that is, you have the programme installed
on the right device. And if you "have not used it recently". And if not?

Enthusiasts will respond that Google is not the only mobile tracking
device on the market, nor the only one that can be used fraudulently.
They will point out that Google has been kind enough not keep a database
of our whereabouts. That misses the point. Google practically is the
internet, and its services have become as intrinsic to our use of the
internet as keyboards and Internet Explorer. What happens when Latitude
becomes as ubiquitous as Google Search, GoogleMap and Gmail?

Well, then we arrive at reason number two why this technology
constitutes a serious threat. The more people who use Latitude, the more
it becomes embedded in the way we live, the more freedom and
unpredictability are curtailed.

Imagine the popularity of Google Latitude balloons, without those
inevitable privacy breaches. MI5 leaves laptops on trains, hackers steal
4.5 million CVs from a recruitment website and the government loses 25
million child benefit records. But no one thinks to pinch someone's
phone in a pub to spend the rest of the night tracking them, for a
laugh. Latitude is just a soft, bubbly, Googley toy that harms no-one.
This is called suspending disbelief.

Everyone you know is "Latitude-enabled". Peek at your screen and
hundreds of smiling icons peer back at you on a GoogleMap. You're no
longer free.

If you're married, you might not want to spend a night in someone else's
bed. But at least you have the choice. Less infidelity is a good thing,
of course. But part of the reason couples stay together is that bond of
trust in knowing that the other half could, if they wanted, sleep with
another, but they don't - not because Google Latitude will catch them
out - but because they choose not to. 

The same goes for skyving off work, or surprising a friend with an
unplanned visit to their house, or organising a surprise birthday party
for your kids. The option for that party has been snatched away. On his
eighth birthday, your son is going to come home from football practice,
glance at his phone, and see the smiling faces of 17 classmates
lingering above a satellite image of the roof of his house. 

Call me an anarchist, but I don't want to see who in my network is in a
cafe before deciding whether that is the place I should buy my coffee. I
like the surprise behind the door, whether good or bad. And I especially
like the idea of walking down the road not knowing who I might bump into
around the corner.

If I'm alerted beforehand by a beep in my pocket and two faces - one
mine, the other a friend I haven't seen for years - sliding towards each
other on a map, then the moment has been spoiled. Google Latitude, you
have just sucked the fun out of my life.


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