Re:How GPS became a human tracking mechanism
by Frondo on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @02:35PM
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Yes, yes we absolutely can.
Tracking people is a technological thing, but the power to do anything with that information is a legal and social thing.
The information's out there, and it'll never go away. What we need to do is work to steer the societal expectations that one's location is private, important, protected by law, not divulgable by the phone company except under penalty of law, not sellable for marketing purposes, etc.
Tracking people is a technological thing, but the power to do anything with that information is a legal and social thing.
The information's out there, and it'll never go away. What we need to do is work to steer the societal expectations that one's location is private, important, protected by law, not divulgable by the phone company except under penalty of law, not sellable for marketing purposes, etc.
This is a social problem. We fix it with laws.