IP: Some Privacy Concerns Rise as Plans For Tracking Cell-Phone Users Unfold

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave e-mail pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: Some Privacy Concerns Rise as Plans For Tracking Cell-Phone Users 
> Unfold
> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 00:48:12 -0800
>
> http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB942974487363042509.htm
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> Some Privacy Concerns Rise as Plans
> For Tracking Cell-Phone Users Unfold
> By NICOLE HARRIS
> Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
>
>
> NEW YORK -- The federal government wants your phone company to know where you
> are when you use your wireless phone. That's prompting privacy advocates to
> warn that cell phones may become high-tech snoop engines.
>
> The Federal Communications Commission has mandated that all wireless-service
> providers be able to pinpoint the location of a wireless 911 call within 100
> feet by October 2001. The intention is to solve a problem that has frustrated
> stranded drivers and crime victims alike: Safety officials today have no 
> way of
> quickly determining the exact origin of a wireless 911 call.
>
> Also, in August, the agency said wireless carriers must provide law 
> enforcement
> officials wielding court orders with the location of the communications tower
> connecting a cell-phone call at the beginning and end of the call. That move
> came in response to requests from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and 
> other
> law-enforcement agencies.
>
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