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Re: [privacy] 20 inspectors suspended over GPS
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:27:06 -0400
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:34:55 EDT, "Richard M. Smith" said:
The Massachusetts public safety commissioner yesterday suspended 20 state building and engineering inspectors for refusing to accept cellphones equipped with global positioning systems.
More backstory on this - I asked my brother (who is in the Boston area) about this - is it "Here's a GPS cellphone so if you don't make it to your next scheduled stop we know where to send help" or "Here's a GPS cellphone because we suspect you're nipping out to Sharkey's for a pitcher of something". And he said it's common knowledge that it's the latter - they had a bit of a stink a while ago about snowplow drivers abusing the overtime system.
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