Another conspiracy site spouts its paranoid delusions. What-ifs make for wonderful tales.
OTOH, new cellphones are equipped with GPS positioning receivers.
Qualcomm can now convert cell phones into mobile Global Positioning System devices by adapting emergency-tracking technology for display on individual phone screens, the company announced Wednesday. GPS systems help lost travelers by pinpointing their location and suggesting directions.
The gpsOne positioning technology designed by Qualcomm subsidiary SnapTrack uses A-GPS, or assisted GPS, a form of location detection in which cell phone towers help GPS satellites fix a cell phone caller's position. SnapTrack's SnapSmart software uses the gpsOne hardware to serve location information to client devices such as cell phones, wireless personal digital assistants, or other wireless instruments.
Police, fire, and ambulance services can use SnapTrack's positioning system to track down cell phone callers in an emergency--but until now callers themselves have been unable to see the same information displayed on their cell phones. Qualcomm expects the SnapSmart location server software to be released before June, the company said.Qualcomm Turns Cell Phones Into GPS Systems (http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,80085,00.asp)
Cell phones that can be tracked -- this technology may help emergency responders find you, but it may also invade your privacy.
If you make a 911 call from a landline, your address comes up at 911 headquarters. However, if you're calling from a cell phone they may not be able to find you as easily. But with a new GPS wireless phone your exact location could be pinpointed.
GPS -- Global Positioning Systems -- have been giving directions in vehicles for sometime. Now your cell phone can give you those same directions. The Federal Communications Commission has mandated that all new cell phones be equipped with location identification capabilities.
This new technology -- that must be in all handsets by December 2005 -- will solidify the E-911 or Enhanced-911 system. The system is designed to allow responders to find someone who has made an emergency call from a wireless phone. Right now 70 of 92 Indiana counties are e-911 capable.GPS Cell Phones: The Good and the Bad (http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1801022)
IAC, all this pales in comparision to the fedgov's mind-reading satellites.
Unknown to most of the world, satellites can perform astonishing and often menacing feats. This should come as no surprise when one reflects on the massive effort poured into satellite technology since the Soviet satellite Sputnik, launched in 1957, caused panic in the U.S. A spy satellite can monitor a person’s every movement, even when the “target” is indoors or deep in the interior of a building or traveling rapidly down the highway in a car, in any kind of weather (cloudy, rainy, stormy). There is no place to hide on the face of the earth. It takes just three satellites to blanket the world with detection capacity. Besides tracking a person’s every action and relaying the data to a computer screen on earth, amazing powers of satellites include reading a person’s mind, monitoring conversations, manipulating electronic instruments and physically assaulting someone with a laser beam. Remote reading of someone’s mind through satellite technology is quite bizarre, yet it is being done; it is a reality at present, not a chimera from a futuristic dystopia! To those who might disbelieve my description of satellite surveillance, I’d simply cite a tried-and-true Roman proverb: Time reveals all things (tempus omnia revelat).THE SHOCKING MENACE OF SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE (http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/satellite_surveillance.htm)
There's only one solution.
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