holgr.com: Apple’s iPhone 3G and the ubiquitous internet
Raoul Pop
· 1 year ago
Location-based advertisements are a benign use of tracking data when compared with the possibility of realtime-tracking by the government. Here in the US, AT&T has opened up its pipes to the government for a long time. How easy do you think it'll be for them to track the movements of any iPhone owner, should they choose to do so, now that the GPS chip is in there? It would be a trivial switch in terms of effort.
But really, this applies to just about any phone with a GPS chip out there, not just the iPhone. The funny thing is, if the government had actually tried to get people to carry GPS devices so they could be tracked, they'd have never succeeded. But people have readily adopted them and have opened themselves to that possibility simply because they got some benefits out of it as well. Interesting how that worked, no?
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compared with the possibility of realtime-tracking by the government.
Here in the US, AT&T has opened up its pipes to the government for a
long time. How easy do you think it'll be for them to track the
movements of any iPhone owner, should they choose to do so, now that
the GPS chip is in there? It would be a trivial switch in terms of
effort.
But really, this applies to just about any phone with a GPS chip out
there, not just the iPhone. The funny thing is, if the government had
actually tried to get people to carry GPS devices so they could be
tracked, they'd have never succeeded. But people have readily adopted
them and have opened themselves to that possibility simply because
they got some benefits out of it as well. Interesting how that worked,
no?
:-)
R.