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The service can find the whereabouts of almost any cellphone in the country within seconds. It does this by going through a system typically used by marketers and other companies to get location data from major cellphone carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, documents show.
Four of the country's largest cellular providers have been selling your real-time location information, allowing a Texas-based prison technology company, Securus, to track any phone "within seconds," without a warrant. The system uses data sold by AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and other carriers - who provide it through an intermediary called LocationSmart.
Kevin Blankston, director of New America's Open Technology Institute told ZDNet in a phone call that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act only restricts telecom companies from disclosing data to the government. It does not restrict carriers from disclosing information to other companies - a loophole Blankston calls "one of the biggest gaps in US privacy law.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: infolurker
Why do police have such a hard time catching drug dealers, bank robbers, gang members, etc.., if they can pinpoint where they are located at any given moment?
originally posted by: madmac5150
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: infolurker
Why do police have such a hard time catching drug dealers, bank robbers, gang members, etc.., if they can pinpoint where they are located at any given moment?
Because basic map skills are no longer taught in schools...
originally posted by: madmac5150
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: infolurker
Why do police have such a hard time catching drug dealers, bank robbers, gang members, etc.., if they can pinpoint where they are located at any given moment?
Because basic map skills are no longer taught in schools...
originally posted by: Allaroundyou
originally posted by: madmac5150
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: infolurker
Why do police have such a hard time catching drug dealers, bank robbers, gang members, etc.., if they can pinpoint where they are located at any given moment?
Because basic map skills are no longer taught in schools...
Fake news...they give students a map to find there classes at the beginning of the year. I think
originally posted by: Allaroundyou
a reply to: madmac5150
I think I have an idea to teach people to learn this very basic thing called reading a map(properly). The government should purposely put up a map saying you are here. But and this is a big but, the you are here map should be purposely wrong to confuse. Then maybe others will learn to use a map.
Or it may just cause mass chaos amongst the youth. Which actually sounds kinda funny
originally posted by: madmac5150
I do not own a cell phone. It is amazing.
No one bothers me... no distractions when I drive. No texts, no Facebook updates and definitely no Twitter.
No more driving halfway home, just to have my wife send me back to the grocery store.
Cut the wireless tether my friends... eliminate the "oh, by the ways"... end electronic incarceration!
For more information, and a somewhat helpful pamphlet, text "Liberation" to 64555- standard carrier rates may apply...