Graduate Student Unveils Sprint's GPS Sharing With Feds > If nothing to hide

reply to Matt

Re: If nothing to hide

Got a phone that was made in the last 5 years?...you got GPS then !

True dat, but still it's not the GPS I have an issue with it's the monitoring.

I can leave my phone at home (and frequently have to because the battery sucks ass) however as I'm not involved in any type of violent regime change, I really don't see how the GPS activity is emanating from it is anybody's business.

My original point still stands.

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I think we should be concerned with both issues.

The very creation of a profile about a person that includes personal interests, location, history of locations, contacts, financial transactions, etc. is a gross invasion of privacy. No government organization or private business should have the ability to do this without first obtaining the explicit written consent of the informed individual, or a court order.

Our society needs to create laws that clearly designate each individual as the sole owner of information created about them or on them based upon their actions (such as credit card purchases, travel, or GPS location history). Only then will people truly start to have a smidgen of privacy again.

Yes, this law should apply equally to government and private agencies. That means no more snooping and selling of data by phone companies, credit card companies, insurance companies, internet browser cookies, etc., etc. Make it a felony punishable by up to $100,000 fine or 10 years imprisonment for each offense to invade our privacy.
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To all liberals: I am NOT one of your parents, so get the heck out of my wallet. It's time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility for taking care of yourselves, which means not relying on the government to give it all to you.

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As criminologist Katheryn Russell, University of Maryland, College Park, puts it, "The high number of blacks arrested are partially the result of police targeting them in the first place."

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reply to El Quintron
I think we're confusing two issues here: 1) Profiling, or the act of building a generic description of someone and then investigating all people who match that description, and 2) Building profiles of people, or creating millions of data sets that pertain to specific individuals (like "All of John Doe's credit card transactions).

I'm OK with police profiling to a certain degree. For instance, I don't have much of a problem with police placing additional scrutiny on Muslims going into a particular building or attending an event, if there is credible evidence that a Muslim terrorist organization is planning some activity there. I don't think that this is a violation of privacy, or rights, or much of anything... it's just being smart about investigating and using your limited resources to play the odds.

I'm not OK with authorities building individual profiles on people without having good reason (like having evidence to suspect someone of committing a crime). Using people's credit card records, GPS location information, phone records, bank account records, etc. to investigate someone without specific and credible cause fits into this category. This practice is invasive and clearly violates what should be a right to privacy in our society.
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To all liberals: I am NOT one of your parents, so get the heck out of my wallet. It's time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility for taking care of yourselves, which means not relying on the government to give it all to you.

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