Take the battery out.
Be mindful of this and don’t take your phone with you while you are going to a location that you don’t want someone - anyone to know.
/johnny
1. Slip the battery cover off.
2. Remove battery.
3. Exhale.
Dain bramage:.....Beer Store
Dainbramage:......Home
Dain bramage:.....Work
Dain bramage:....Beer Store
Dain bramage.....Home
Dain bramage:....Work...............
This stuff like Google Earth is bizarre; I entered my address in Google something and there were pictures of the front and both sides of my house. Crazy...
They say you’d also be shocked how many times in a given day you’re recorded on security cameras while on the sidewalk/street.
This is great news for private investigators who will more than likely figure out how to access this information - like what hotel room you are in and if there is another persons cell phone almost on top of your cell phone, etc.
How long before cell companies start selling this data? Stalkers will be thrilled - the possibilities are endless.
Ping.
Tracfones don't. That's another good reason for using them, besides no exorbitant contract.
I know of moms of teenagers that go on the computer to the cell carrier site and can see where there teenagers are.
If the phone is OFF it can’t be tracked.
Oh and there is of course a fee for this tracking.
Another example of the collusion between big government and big business. Here in the US being able to locate a cell phone beyond just what cell it was in for technical reasons, was justified for our “protection” in case of a 911 call. And to be honest, some kidnapped children have been found thanks to the location information. However, it could have been implemented with a function button on the phone: whenever you wanted to allow your exact location to be known, the button would have to be pushed giving permission. Notice that option was never raised to the level of a public discussion. No, the FCC just imposed a mandate to the cell phone companies to keep track of the location within I think a 200 foot circle. That of course is now supplemented with GPS information when the phone can resolve a GPS coordinate.
I may just opt for a WiFi-enabled Google voice phone, so I control exactly when I reveal my location and when I don’t.
your position... recorded... every 6 minutes.
of course, that’s assuming the samples were evenly distributed through time.
if i created the system, i would only record a new location, if it had changed since the last reading. otherwise, i would just update a field in the existing record. therefore, each sample would have the gps coordinate, t1 and t2. t1 and t2 being the times through which the gps reading was valid.
this would allow me to essentially ignore all the samples of the phone remaining stationary (ie: nighttime) and get a finer time granularity on the samples.
Thanks...not that song’ll be stuck in my head for a couple of hours. At least it’s a “memory song.”
:-)
I was watching a special on Discovery called, Track me if you can. This guy talked about all the ways that our movements can be tracked. One thing he mentioned was that some tire manufacturers now put a tracking device in the tires. I didn’t know about that.
It’s all the more reason NOT to have one of those anchors.
If you turn your cell phone off you can’t be tracked. There is a fee that parents pay to monitor their kids online it only works if their cell is on.
I would have thought that most people would know that after the OJ was tracked down by his in 1994! lol