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Community weekly poll: If the technology existed to track your movements...
- 12/12/06 3:49 PM
No problem At All
by mholdcraft - 12/14/06 8:35 AM In reply to: If the technology existed to track your movements... by Marc Bennett
I am surprised at some of the replies I read about privacy concerns. Being able to tracking the location of anyone's cell phone for emergency situations makes sense, unless someone is worried because they are doing something illegal. The answer here is develop a tracking device placed inside all cell phones that can be turned on or off by the user, as desired. Then if you don't want to be tracked, turn the device off.
Tracking us IS a worry!
by Marysue - 12/14/06 10:11 AM In reply to: No problem At All by mholdcraftTracking pedophiles in order to catch them and rescue thier victims? Good thing. Tracking consumer interests and spending? Pain-in-the-neck-Bad thing. Tracking dissidents? Evil.
Tracking terrorists? Hmmm. Who ARE terrorists, anyway?
Some homicidal maniac tossing a bomb in a subway? Sure. Hell's Angels slitting the throat of those who testify against them? Sure, the H's A are terrorists. Some idiot shooting doctors on the pretext of saving a fertilzed egg would qualify as a terrorist, too. Some fanatic carrying nerve gas into a train full of people is a terrorist. Someone with a couple of remote-controlled planes full of explosives, aiming them at highrises... well, you get the idea.
There are many who believe that Big Oil Barons, WalMart, Big Pharmacies, Monsanto, Cargill, the military-industrial-complex and the drug cartels are THE terrorists. But to the corporate thugs at the heads of those companies, anyone who would dare curb their freedom to rape, pillage and plunder are deemed "terrorists".
Quite frankly, the ones that terrify me the most are the brainwashed, brain-dead peons who think there's nothing the matter--nothing to worry about. Some even post here.
This is very scary idea
by notoftherightmind - 12/14/06 2:55 PM In reply to: If the technology existed to track your movements... by Marc Bennett
To have your phone track your movements is ripe for abuse. It just takes one incident for that to happen. (In Canada we had individual that was arrested and then sent to the US. US then sent him to Jordan were he was tortured. Think how easier that would have been with tracking phones.)Next thing you know all the Jews, or Christian, or those who love guns could be round up and put into a rededication camp or worse, think WWII. I vote against it, but I am Canadian and I believe cell phones that track you are already in place.
As to the CNET editor we can only morn his loss and wish he want out into the back woods more prepared. To many wander out into areas they are not prepared or ready to enter and the solution is not tracking devices but skill, knowledge and wisdom.
GPS use in cell phones
by guymorn - 12/15/06 7:37 AM In reply to: If the technology existed to track your movements... by Marc Bennett
As a communications tech I can tell you that the cellphone providers can find you anyway IF you are in a cell tower's range. The real advantage to GPS is if you are *outside* the range of a cell tower. VERY useful for situations such as what happened to James Kim.
I agree with several who say we have no privacy anyway. Another little fact of life you learn when you are in communications and government/military environments.
Relax, and remember it is only a tool. You can make it as useful or not as you see fit.
K.W.
(NT) What IF? IT's here now!!!!!! John
by jcrobso - 12/15/06 8:12 AM In reply to: If the technology existed to track your movements... by Marc Bennett
My main concern would be privacy.
by tricky77puzzle - 1/17/07 1:34 PM In reply to: If the technology existed to track your movements... by Marc Bennett
I don't like the thought that some monsters in white coats are looking at wherever I go, every day. It just makes me feel invaded. It makes me feel like I have no right to my body, or to secrets, anymore.
This is also the exact reason I'm saying absolutely NO to biochipping. For those of you who have never heard of such a thing, look it up on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochip
Biochipping is scary indeed...
by BlazeEagle - 1/17/07 1:53 PM In reply to: My main concern would be privacy. by tricky77puzzleI've heard about this before & everytime I hear it,this creeps me out!
They can probably help in finding cures for diseases & such, but they have a huge potential for abuse, especially if/when they start puttig chips into peoples bodies.
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