Re: FCC v Mom

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* Larry Seltzer:

> I'll admit I hadn't heard that it was reporting this data, but do you
> actually think companies are going to log it and maintain the data? Doesn't
> seem like they'd normally have any reason to do that.

AFAIK, phone companies already log location information for fraud
detection purposes.  The cell-based location data is not exact enough
for 911 dispatching, though, that's why GPS is needed.  When I worked
on these things in 1998, power consumption by GPS receivers was a
significant issue, and continuous location tracking drained out the
batteries very quickly.  We resorted to transmission of location
information only on request or in 5-minute intervals (or something
like that).  Maybe this isn't necessary anymore.

Triangulation in a WiFi mesh is reported being more precise than GSM
cell location, approaching GPS (without selective availability, and
without differential GPS support).  So Paul should better rotate his
MAC addresses randomly. 8-)
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