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I would think this isn't limited to in-vehicle hardware like OnStar, but rather it seems applicable to smartphones too. That smartphone in your pocket is moving
by yock 15y ago
I would think this isn't limited to in-vehicle hardware like OnStar, but rather it seems applicable to smartphones too. That smartphone in your pocket is moving just as fast as your car and could just as easily be used to gather such data. Perhaps not as fine grained as the OnStar information (talking coarse vs fine location) but there's certainly enough data casually collected by your dormant smartphone to enable much of the same exploitation.
- boredguy8 15y agoIf you have some time, read "Warrantless location Tracking" 83 N.Y.U.L. Rev. 1324 http://www.law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv2/groups/public/@nyu_law_website__journals__law_review/documents/web_copytext/ecm_pro_059784.pdf http://www.law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv2/groups/public/@nyu_law_websi... A common step in police investigations today is to secure a court order tracking the movements of a suspect or anyone else whose location the police believe useful. The flip side of this powerful tool, though, is how revealing and intrusive it is. Few people would be comfortable being followed by a police officer all day, even if they did nothing illegal or even interesting. Justice Brandeis once invoked the "right to be let alone," and undetectable location tracking pressures the alone part: No one is "let alone" if the police may, without notice or probable cause, find out everywhere they go for a day or a month. It's a good, if disturbing, read.