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Chat => General => Topic started by: netbuddy on March 12, 2009, 11:01:48 pm
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Anyone seen the hype about google's service called "Latitude" at all in the news?
My advice, not wanting to give the criminal element any ideas, avoid it like the plague, it is or has serious implications for your personal safety, especially lone women returning home after a night on the lash.
Employers are told that they can use this to track staff, well sorry to say that what i have been advised is that they can not and legal issues on privacy that employers must observe are flouted by this.
I really have serious concerns about this service and several of my friends also have expressed concern over it.
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How do they track you?
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The service as google puts it is safe... Erm, not so fast 'G' man.
The mobile you want tracked is registered with google or through the software.
As the end user on the phone front has to agree to this, getting around this fact according to google is impossible unless the phone has been left unattended.
What this actually opens the flood gates to is an issue with personal safety.
What I don't want to do is make it public on how this "Safety" issue is circumnavigated by the criminal element but its very easy as technology already exists that can compromise mobile phones.
All I can say is that if an employer tries to use this on you, then you can object and to discover your employer is tracking you, you have a legal case against them for infringment on your privacy.
On the sinister side of things, this could easily be used for criminal intentions.
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Well it looks like Google are now breaking in to the telecommunication market, not content with the SkyPE service, they now want a bigger chunk of the internet and telecoms business.
So now their fingers are in the mobile phone network, this is how they have unlimited access to tracking data..
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Well seems like my prediction on google was correct, the only next step for them is to aquire live satilite and then you can be monitored from space by tracking your mobile.
IMHO Google are ignoring our basic right to privacy.
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It is very simple. If you do not want your mobile whereabouts to be traced then do not register with this google latitude service. I think it has been started so parents can keep track of where their children are which is not a bad idea.
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Point is, they dont need you to register for lattitude, every mobile phone made since 9/11 has a GPS location beacon on the mobile regardless of if the phone has the capability of using GPS.
You are being tracked...
You can also be tracked by tower triangulation of your signal from your phone.
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Big Brother is watching us anyway.
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Top tip... if you ring in work sick and go to the pub, leave your mobile at home. ;)
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Top tip... if you ring in work sick and go to the pub, leave your mobile at home. ;)
;) true.
Similar applies to SatNav systems you know. People say that they do not know where you are after you have registered your home address in the devices.
If you move and do not change your address, they won;t need to know becuase where ever the unit ends up at the end of the day and is static duing "Sleep" hours, eg after midnight and 6am, you can bet your ass that the units NEW home is that geo location.
This is why I do not trust new technology, because you do not know what they are doing with that data, and you have to wonder about blue tooht enabled devices and phones too.
If you have ever tried to "Bluejack" a phone, you will know just how easy it is, like the time I have about 20 hoodies all stood pointing at my flat window laughing, so I bluejacked one of them and you know what, they soon disapeared. Laughing my ass off I was.
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With CCTV cameras everywhere we are permanently being watched but as long as you are not doing anything wrong there's nothing to worry about is there.
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With CCTV cameras everywhere we are permanently being watched but as long as you are not doing anything wrong there's nothing to worry about is there.
And odd as it sounds, we have more cameras than any other country in the world and it also is odd how this has no impact on crimes on the street.
Google have taken technology to the point where your able to see things from space, they now are in your phones, not just as the search engin om your PDA or phone but actually IN the network.
This level of access to data by one company should be sounding alarm bells but people are lapping it up.
What happens when google decide to flick the switch and say to people that unless you pay you are locked out the system. Technology in the future will rely heavily on access to networks, techonology already exists on some countrys that allow you to pay for bus fare with your mobile phone credit! Order and pay for items without the need for a credit card...
You have to wonder where google are going with this and I do have concerns over our privacy.
Have you ever wondered why people are "Stressed" and "Feel Paranoid" and that these cases rose with the expansion of cameras. It may seem trivial now but in the future when its all too late, what then?
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The question is do they CCTV cameras work or are they dummies?
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Well I don't know TBH never tried sucking on one...
The cameras we have here were told are "Military Grade Optics" meaning that they can see the pattern of the weave on your jeans...
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Well I don't know TBH never tried sucking on one...
The cameras we have here were told are "Military Grade Optics" meaning that they can see the pattern of the weave on your jeans...
Military Grade Optics: the ones you get in the Naafi.
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LMAO, a wee dram the noo...