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Old 08-31-2015, 09:03 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
And so? There are only a small percentage of apps (mapping/tracking stuff, basically) that need GPS. FTM, you can simply turn off the phone/remove the battery/leave it at home if you don't care to be tracked. And of course a certain degree of tracking is inherent to any cell phone, since the signal can/has to be triangulated by the nearest towers.

For a GPS built into a car, it would be pretty simple for the technically inclined to disconnect the antenna, and feed in signals showing it to be anywhere on Earth - or even in orbit :-)
I made a simple and very true statement that most people are being tracked already, it doesn't matter how easy/hard it is to turn it off, its just a fact. Having an autonomous car running around which has to know where it is and where it is going isn't going to change the fact that the people riding around in them are most likely already being tracked and by more than one method, ie. credit/atm card purchases.

Largely its a choice, if you want the convenience you accept the stuff that goes along with it.
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