[Keith in Iowa]

>>>I was unaware that carriers were providing that information to the government and third parties without my consent. <<<

They're not. And the technology in the original article in the post won't either.

Sheesh. Some people will buy into any paranoid drivel that gets posted around here.

[Gondring]

article>>The program charts drivers' relative speed by measuring the time between the intermittent signals cell phones send to towers along a stretch of road. Then, that information - stripped of the personal identification and serial numbers that identify the cell phone's owner - is overlaid with highway maps to determine where the phones are and how fast they are moving.

Keith in Iowa>They're not. And the technology in the original article in the post won't either

Please explain...are you saying that the cell phone company is going to do the calculations and not pass on any raw info?