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Re:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working... by shadowgovt on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:56PM (#21652559)
Why do they have phones with GPS circuits in them it they don't want to be tracked?
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Re:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working... by SiempreViernes on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @06:46PM (#21653330)
Presumably to be able to know where they themselves are, a gps circuit is only a passive receiver and a bit of compute.
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Re:The Color of Surveillance: Monitoring of Poor and Working... by semiotagonal on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:11PM (#21652676)
There's nothing about GPS that says it should provide continuous information to others about one's location.
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