Time: The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves

Platapus · 08-25-10, 07:07 PM

I guess I better clean out my garage and park my car in my garage

(I wish)

CCIP · 08-25-10, 07:14 PM

Eh, this isn't necessarily new. Like it or not, the government has always had the capacity to track you discretely if it wanted to; maybe the only real difference here is that it's maybe a bit cheaper to do this technically now than it was before. I'm not sure if it really makes it more (or less) likely for them to want to track the average person though.

Not saying that doing something like that isn't outrageous (of course it is!), but I think people have to be realistic about this. It's been done and will be done, and if you want to do something about it, the only way to (legally and ethically) do anything about it is to ask your representative(s) tough questions.

08-25-10, 07:07 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,381 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I guess I better clean out my garage and park my car in my garage (I wish) __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

08-25-10, 07:14 PM	#2
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Eh, this isn't necessarily new. Like it or not, the government has always had the capacity to track you discretely if it wanted to; maybe the only real difference here is that it's maybe a bit cheaper to do this technically now than it was before. I'm not sure if it really makes it more (or less) likely for them to want to track the average person though. Not saying that doing something like that isn't outrageous (of course it is!), but I think people have to be realistic about this. It's been done and will be done, and if you want to do something about it, the only way to (legally and ethically) do anything about it is to ask your representative(s) tough questions. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)