Would You Want...

[neonlyte]

to know where you've been?

OK - it's a research question... Yeh... another.

If the information was password encrypted (i.e. only accessible by password), would you want to know where your mobile phone had been over the last 364 days? (This allows the legitimate excuse of saying: 'it wasn't me... it was my phone)

As always... any response appreciated.

 

[English Lady]

I can't really say I'd be terribly interested to find out. My phone, I'm pretty sure, leads a fairly mundane life.

And if it ihas a secret, exciting existance? Well, I'd hate to spoil it's fun, really.

 

[The_Fool]

I would be more interested in using that type of information in the case of it being lost or stolen. a LOJACK sort of situation.

 

[rgraham666]

Don't have a mobile phone so can't answer this.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I just got mine a few days ago. I'm pretty sure it's been in my backpack or on the counter since then, and in the package before that.

 

[sr71plt]

I'd love to know where anyone had thought it had been because I don't have one.

And I've never had one for the reasons you allude to. My place of employment told me I could be traced through one, so never to carry one--at least while on duty. So, I never have. But I have rarely used a landline phone for the same reason.

 

[neonlyte]

My God... you are a sheltered lot

Imagine you are sat down to do your Tax Return... wouldn't it be useful to know where you'd been?

Remember that hot one night stand? Wouldn't it be great to find his/her address (especially if it turned out to be yours )

To his excellency The Fool: yes... that is the nub. It's not possible under UK law except by 'contracting in', but under certain circumstances, the information would be invaluable.

 

[jomar]

I'm not sure I understand your question since my mobile phone stays with me.

On the other hand, a family members mobile phone was stolen. I called to discontinue it and the phone service was stopped, but boy did the thief know how to text message!

 

[DesertPirate]

Don't want that kind of info available at all. Too much like a tracking device. It will get cracked and misused, guaranteed!

 

[neonlyte]

I'm not sure I understand your question since my mobile phone stays with me.

So does mine... but I'm damned if I can remember where I was this time last year


I know I wasn't on STORY... and neither were you

 

[jomar]

So does mine... but I'm damned if I can remember where I was this time last year


I know I wasn't on STORY... and neither were you

Now you're talking a whole different kind of tracking.

 

[freshface]

Marketers are already finding ways to use the GPS chips in our phones. Coming soon to a screen near yours...advertising from near-by businesses onto your cell phone. You'll never miss a Starbucks again. Makes me want to dig out an old cell phone that doesn't have all of the fanciness built in.

There are already cell phone providers marketing tracking to parents. You too can always locate your child's phone. A bit too much like Big Brother to me.

 

[neonlyte]

Now you're talking a whole different kind of tracking.

Hee... hee

 

[TheeGoatPig]

My phone is a hand-me-down, so I would rather know where it was before I owned it

 

[DesertPirate]

Marketers are already finding ways to use the GPS chips in our phones. Coming soon to a screen near yours...advertising from near-by businesses onto your cell phone. You'll never miss a Starbucks again. Makes me want to dig out an old cell phone that doesn't have all of the fanciness built in.

There are already cell phone providers marketing tracking to parents. You too can always locate your child's phone. A bit too much like Big Brother to me.

Wait until the phone companies turn it into a money fountain. Charge the businesses to advertize and charge you to block it. Sounds normal to me

 

[freshface]

Wait until the phone companies turn it into a money fountain. Charge the businesses to advertize and charge you to block it. Sounds normal to me

That does sound kind of like their business model...

 

[neonlyte]

That does sound kind of like their business model...

Not sure it's the phone companies model...

I saw a demo piece of software last month, in Germany; an internet linked camera that identified subjects from a shutter click. If your image is on the internet... it finds you. That worries me far more than knowing where my phone (and I) have been.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have no worries as my phone is pre-gps chip design with no plans to expensify it. It a fucking phone!! I have a camera, I sure as hell don't need to talk on it!!

If I lose it I just happen to have another just like it in a drawer next to my desk. All I need is a smart chip from my provider and I'm set to go.

And seeing as my phone is either sitting in its charger or in its pouch clipped to my belt, I have no need to know where it's been. Nor do I need to know where I've been. If it was important, I wrote it down, if not, then it's one of those things I can try to forget.

Although there are services in the US were a parent can buy a phone for their child and track where they go online. Of course the phone has to be turned on.