Posted on 12/20/2012 11:49:23 PM PST by neverdem
They can track you everywhere, but you can’t get a cop to show up within 30 minutes of call.
The Force has a serious disconnect problem.
Give me your phone number, I'll call you and you can follow the ring tone. Did you check down in the bottom of your sofa? I found 87 cents in mine.......
Give me your phone number, I'll call you and you can follow the ring tone. Did you check down in the bottom of your sofa? I found 87 cents in mine.......
With that many cameras and that much data on their location/orientation, it is theoretically possible to have very close real-time surveillance of any place where cellphones are used.
Where there are many phones to collect data from, imagine something like a real-time, rotatable 3D image patched together from all the cellphone cameras. Any point in a public square can be zoomed in and listened in on.
It would surprise me if the CIA isn't at least developing such technology.
Great article, but only a start, as one can still shut off a cell phone and remove its battery (well, at least the ones that I still use).
Next they should do a write-up on monitoring of motor vehicles, starting with the very-sophisticated license plate cameras, called “Amber Alert Cameras”. They simply record every single car going past and put it into a database. Later, if there’s an Amber Alert, the cops just access the database...or if the pigs are just curious about where certain people are driving - they can pull that info by license plate (or other ways). There are also transponder readers not only on our toll roads in Houston, but also plastered on all of our freeways (look up at that backside of freeway signs here in Houston if you don’t believe me). So if you have a transponder, they know where you’ve been and when - toll road or not.
Finally, Smart Meters do a great job of letting them know when you wake up, when you leave for work, when you get home, and when you’re on vacation.
And keep in mind that the Transponder Readers are (likely) used by the Department of Transportation (government workers, but not police), and Smart Meters send their info to private companies, which can do as they please.
Later
This technology can also be used to mislead those unwanted spies. Turn your cell phone on and toss it in the nearest garbage truck while it’s on its rounds ... Or buy one of those cheapies and “accidentally” drop it in the tank of a honey wagon. Then let the snoops come after it.
If you don’t want Big Brother spying on you turn your cell phone off and wrap in tin foil when you are not using it. It will not talk to the cell tower or respond to GPS. This will allow you to bury the body and get out of the area undetected. :-)
WHAT!! Don't ask me to destroy my hat.
But be sure your car doesn't have Onstar or a GPS transponder of any kind. And you might check with an auto-electronics shop to see what it'd take to get your onboard black box to stop recording your data for after-accident snooping by insurance and police dicks.
And don't insure the car with companies like Progressive that like to bug your car.
So tell us, O Wise Latina, what your opinion would have read, had the case been titled instead, U.S. vs. Limbaugh? U.S. vs. Levin? Or vs. Palin?
Signify to us, O Wise Latina.
The old, 19th-century way of stating that is, "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe when the Legislature is in session."
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