Tracking made easy with wireless gadgets

[Dems4HowardDean]

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/nation/14692294.htm

Tracking easy with wireless gadgets
Practice brings up privacy concerns
By Robert S. Boyd
Washington Bureau
1/83/8

WASHINGTON | For better or for worse, it's rapidly getting easier for others to know where you are, sometimes 24/7.

Thanks to the explosive spread of wireless technology - particularly cell phones, car navigation systems and global-positioning systems - parents, employers, detectives and government agents can track your movements, with or without your being aware of it.

Many people don't realize that a cell phone or a BlackBerry is constantly broadcasting its location whenever its power is on, whether or not a call is in progress.

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[DaveJ]

1. Wow, amazing, talk about serendipity..,.

I am just in the midst of compiling a post on the Computer Help discussion group involving an MP3 player I obtained from China that contains a virus/spyware, that I suspect is installed for the Chinese government to surveil its citizens.... I'm working on it now.

[DaveJ]

2. Please look at this post...

If you are interesting in technological gadgets...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=242x8280