He ran the web site for a few months overlaying the location of cars on a map, until his paranoia overcame is anger at Austin's Finest, and took it down.
I assume that police cars still telemeter GPS location, although I would expect by now they are starting to encrypt the information! Maybe not.
Privacy can work two ways.
Cheers
Rob From Michigan
At 12:39 PM 5/10/2007, Bill Bentley wrote:
Or Amateur radio APRS units...with an off switch of course...
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=N5POB-1
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=N5POB-9
Bill
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From: "Bill Mixon" <billmi...@worldnet.att.net>
To: "CaveTex" <texascavers@texascavers.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:18 AM
Subject: [Texascavers] tracking GPS units
> Pete is right. They can't track a GPS unit. But they can track any cell
> phone that is turned on, because it keeps in contact with the towers so
that
> calls to you can be routed through the nearest tower. Also, some cell
phones
> now contain GPS units so that they can automatically supply your exact
> location for 911 calls. This is in one way a useful thing, because a lot
of
> people call 911 on cell phones to report accidents but don't know where
they
> are. Still, it's one of those things that gets done without caring about
the
> privacy implications. Electronic toll road passes are another such thing.
> And of course any time you use a credit or debit card, your location is
> available in real time. Many cars' computers will rat on how fast you were
> going and whether you were using your seatbelt before an accident.
> Europeans are more sensitive to such things, having coped within
living
> memory with Nazis, fascists, and communists. Even if you aren't doing
> anything likely to interest our government, you might worry about your
> wife's detectives.... -- Mixon
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