Comments on: Google Offers "Latitude" To Track People

New, Free Software Enables You To Keep Tabs On Others' Whereabouts, And Vice Versa, Using Cell Phones, Says Natali Del Conte

[gjc2004]

hey susan - it''s not that the people who don''t buy into this *** are doing anything "odd" at all. Don''t you see the bigger picture? i don''t want my every move and thought controlled by anyone but me. and if you dont think corporate America or gov''t doesn''t care what we do then I suggest you read "1984". We''re just beginning to live under a new and revised version of it.

[spinproof]

Lifetime criminals already know they are being tracked by their cell phones without this new consumer version called Latitude, like some have already pointed out, Law Enforcement has had this capability for a while. Professional criminals buy "pay as you go" cell phones to compliment their normal cell phones, leave their normal cell phones in the location of their choice so it looks like they are there and roam with their untraceable "pay as you go" phone, problem solved! Police may not even bring these criminals they think they are tracking in for crimes assuming they were in the location of their original cell phone at the time of a crime. This "Latitude" is a double edge sword and can work against its intended purpose providing false alibis.

[incog-nito]

Posted by tallinson2 at 10:06 PM : Feb 04, 2009

You''re absolutely right. My IQ is only slightly higher than yours.

[tallinson]

"In other news, Google announced that it intends to hunt down and "take care" of people who make derogatory comments about its new service."

Good God! Is there anyone left in the United States with an IQ exceeding that on an amoeba? If there is, they sure can''t be found on the internet!

[incog-nito]

In other news, Google announced that it intends to hunt down and "take care" of people who make derogatory comments about its new service.

[tallinson]

GOOGLE IS YOU FRIEND! Remember that idiotic expression? WITH FRIENDS LIKE THAT, WHO NEEDS ENEMIES? Anyone who signs up for this invasion of privacy is putting one more nail in the coffin of freedom.

[susanhelit]

Wonderful thing - I''d love to be able to use this to track hubby, and let him track me.

As to the paranoid - guess what, big gov''t can already track you. Business doesn''t really care. Nor does gov''t, not unless you''re doing something really odd.

[gjc2004]

Why do we have to be so connected? And why let a giant corporation know where we are? It''s only the beginning people, whether it''s for tracking only or not. If you don''t think this is Big Brother...it''s only going to get worse. I relish in the fact that I grew up in the 60''s & 70''s when there was real freedom. Technology doesn''t always equal freedom. Don''t give in to Google, the gov''t or anything that takes away the little bit of freedom we do have left.

[ogzchknkicke]

NEWS Flash....For anyone who doesn''t already know and is worried about thepolice tracking them. This technology has been around for awhile and if the need arouse they already have the authority to have the cell companies triangulate your cell phone and know your location.

[gretagreen]

I''d like to get it for the kids'' phones, but never for mine.