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Re: Authorities will never abuse power .... said by KrK:We all know that all eight million GPS traces done on Sprint user's cellphones revealing their locations and activities were done within the law with judicial approval and the proper warrants...... Is there a law prohibiting the release of positioning information?
I know there's a law against releasing call records (except under a few circumstances which were expanded by the 2006 Patriot Act). But, positioning/location information isn't call records. What law did Sprint violate?
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
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Tulsa, OK
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| Well, that's a shocker. Apparently accessing a user's Cellphone data isn't protected like accessing their call records is. So apparently no law has been broken. Unless they were residents of New York, anyway.... the New York Appeals court ruled earlier this year that police can't use GPS tracking locations without a warrant. However, apparently this is a "new" gray area and at the moment protection is lacking.
But hell, sounds like we need a new law!
This is some very interesting reading: »paranoia.dubfire.net/2009/12/8-m···nce.html
I really like the part about how much money Cox Communications charges for your data. Note, not protecting you; How much they make in SELLING it.
Guess you'd better not have a stalker or ex or someone who can track your location via your phone....
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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| said by KrK:I really like the part about how much money Cox Communications charges for your data. Note, not protecting you; How much they make in SELLING it. All the private databases bother me. We have this strange revulsion to a national ID even though we use a variety of IDs that are less controlled than most countries apply to their national IDs.
We oppose a national ID because it could lead to a "big brother" database. But, we have a variety of private databases that you (as an individual) have no hope of monitoring and correcting (in ways that other countries make an individual right).
Have you ever requested your ChoicePoint "full disclosure" file? That's an eye opener. They allow one request per year. This is going to be the next credit-reporting movement. Except, they don't report your credit rating. It's everything from unemployment and worker comp claims to insurance claims, or how long you went without coverage. Vehicles registered to you. Driving record. And education.
That's just one database. There's many more. ChoicePoint is offering annual free reports just to stay ahead of the fallout that's bound to occur as more people realize how personal details are available to anyone.
Also, they say they don't store any info about your credit-card purchases. But, they're a subsidiary of Lexus Nexus who does maintain that info, and sells it to a different line of customers.
I'm not concerned about the info being available to those with a need to know. Just the lack of control we have over our info. The plurality of databases. Not knowing how it's used or who's accessing it.
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