On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Juergen Specht wrote:
> I wonder about not to hear any privacy concerns...the technology of
> mobile phones makes it very easy to trace a mobile phone at any
> location...by collecting these data and combining them ONLY to the
> time/date you can create a simple user location profile showing
> somebody (read: police, goverment, secret service and other
> paranoia/curiousity driven organizations) when do you go where.
This data is allready being used in criminal investigation here
in Finland. Officially police needs a court order to get the
location data from the telco (which was atleast the case couple
of years ago in investigation of two cop killings in Helsinki).
I say "officially" since I have some concerns about
police using the same data without courtorder. The
information has been also used against graffiti writers,
and I find a bit hard to believe it would be possible
to get an court order for that purpose.
I don't want to start a discussion about which crime
is bad enough to get an court order. I do agree
with Juergen that there are privacy concerns, and discussion
on that subject is welcome.
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Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
Received on Tue Aug 22 00:50:57 2000