I remember when I was setting it up, one of the settings is "Location", with the options of 'ON' or '911 ONLY'. I chose the setting for 911 ONLY. I guessed it was something like that Onstar thingy I see on TV for cars. NOPE! Don't want it! Leave me ALONE! I don't do anything criminal, I am not a drug dealer or kidnapper, and I have never robbed a bank.
So tonite, I read this at Daily Kos:
If you're like most people, you're probably not aware that your cell phone can be used to track your movements. It can. If your phone is fairly new, the odds are it has a GPS chip inside. The same technology that allows car navigation systems to know where your car is can be used to track your movements through your cell phone. But even if your phone doesn't have a GPS chip, it still has to connect to the cell phone network somehow. It transmits to the nearest cell network tower and, because the location of those towers is known, it's possible to approximate the location of you and your phone.
Looks like my 'guess' was right, about that setting on my phone! Full story can be read here.
LOL, tracking me might bore them to death! I drive around delivering Avon, tossing books in driveways, go to the Post Office and get the mail, sometimes pick up a gradaughter from school, meet people at Starbucks to sign them up, go shopping at the Dollar Store, etc.
Just an ordinary, busy life! Nothing to hide from Big Brother at all. Still, it bothers me, this potential tracking of private non-criminal citizens.
It just does!
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1 comment:
Oh well.. after Bush we have no privacy left anyway...cell phones or no cell phones....lol He had us all wire tapped and tracked by satellites so we are all on tape anyway... did you miss that episode of KO when he was telling about that??
I knew about that before have always thought it and figured it.. but just finally shrugged it off.. can't live paranoid forever.
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