Saturday, March 26, 2011
IT'S TRACKING YOUR EVERY MOVE AND YOU MAY NOT EVEN KNOW:
"Cellphone companies do not typically divulge how much information they collect, so Mr. Spitz went to court to find out exactly what his cellphone company, Deutsche Telekom, knew about his whereabouts." In a six-month period, Deutsche Telekom had recorded and saved his longitude and latitude coordinates more than 35,000 times. "At any given instant, a cell company has to know where you are; it is constantly registering with the tower with the strongest signal," said Matthew Blaze. In the United States, cell phone companies don't have to report exactly what information they collect. This just shows that technology, though good, has certain downsides. This is not information that should be recorded and I think the U.S should pass some sort of law against this.
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That is a scary and difficult issue to address. There are situations people might say warrant keeping this type of information yet there is privacy concerns for sure. How can we know if the information will be used for helpful purposes or just, as you say, tracking our every move?
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