rauri
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# Posted: 25 Jan 2007 09:55
GPS is being used more and more. I find it useful for driving when I don't know an area.
It's great for finding your way about in mountainous regions especially if visibility is poor.
But it has a big brotherish side to it as well.
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"GPS business is booming in the US and Europe. But it's only just begun in terms of phones that know your location on the planet - and which are prepared to tell the world about it. Though the US has, since the end of last year, had the E911 ("enhanced 911") system, which lets emergency operators work out the location of someone calling from a new mobile phone - because the phone incorporates a means of working out the location, either using GPS or by triangulation from the strength of the signal at the nearest mobile phone masts - that hasn't been available to the user directly, nor to outsiders.
Now GPS is being incorporated into new mobiles so that owners can access it. And the effect could be revolutionary. But who would put their position on a map that anyone could browse?"
I told my young niece. 'They are putting gps chips in mobile phones now and will be able to see where you are 24/7.'
She said. 'I'd hate Mum to know where I am all the time.'
She can lie at the moment when her mum calls her
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