from http://www.alternet.org/rights/36151/

Your mobile phone lets companies and the government know where you are, even when you're not making a call.

If you are one of the more than 200 million Americans with a cell phone nestled in your pocket, authorities may be able to find you any time day or night--even if you never make or receive a call.


You know the Verizon ad where a lockstep crowd personifies the network that accompanies its customer everywhere? Well, within that seemingly friendly horde, a high-tech Big Brother is lurking.

Most people know that when they make a mobile call--during a 911 emergency, for example--authorities can access phone company technology to pin down their location, sometimes to within a few feet.

A lesser-known fact: Cell phone companies can locate you any time you are in range of a tower and your phone is on. Cell phones are designed to work either with global positioning satellites or through "pings" that allow towers to triangulate and pinpoint signals. Any time your phone "sees" a tower, it pings it.

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I'm just glad infoterror didn't post this. Cause then it would look like

your cellphone tracks you everywhere through gps navigationa nd tinfoil hats and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

One simple solution:
Get rid of your fucking phone if you don't want anyone to know where you are. If you are going to be able to, theoretically, establish a connection strong enough to make a phone call from virtually any corner of this miserable planet, then what makes you think for one minute that the devise you use for such an action is not trackable by the people who make it possible for you to do so?
If you think that the government is concerned with the where abouts of one Hail_The_leaf, then you my friend must think that you are one important motherfucker. Keep listenting to the ACLU like they represent the interests of America.... 500,000 people can't be wrong!

I'm waiting for the day when they start putting chips in at birth that act as tracking devices or even worse, death triggers. I am sure one day it will happen somewhere, and then terrorists will hack in and kill millions.

I hope the day comes so I can defy it.

It's begun with pets, they have a thing now that they inject in them so you can find them, I am sure they will start a secret program with humans when they are born, or maybe they already have!

Nanotechnology is already here...I don't have a fucking cell phone, I can't stand them, just thought I'd let those of you who actually do..for some reason, have a cell phone, know about this.

I bet there is a way to go in and disable the gps, there has to be, oh well

Y_Ddraig_Goch said:

Total Recall and the exploding neck collar *splat*

Y_Ddraig_Goch said:

Death triggers would be so fucking sweet!

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dwellingsickness said:

My Virgin Mobile has a disable gps feature....good for 911, bad if youre paranoid.