Re: DHS Wants Cell Phones to Detect Chemical, Radioactive Material

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 6/6/07, Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:
> On 6/6/07, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
>
> > > Yes, for new cell phone sales.  IIRC, has been for a year or two now.
> > > This has been  discussed off and on for its security and privacy
> > > implications for a while now.
> > >
> > > > Huh.
> > > >
> > > > My phone must be illegal in the USA then.
> > >
> > > Not illegal to use -- just to buy new I think...
> >
> > All the same, I'll make sure I don't take it to the Land of the Free.
>
> Feel free, if it works over here in the first place. The law is
> another one that I believe was passed by Clinton. I believe it simply
> states a minimum percentage of phones in use that have to have GPS
> built in - and the reasoning for this was finding people who dial 911.
> They can't always triangulate the location of your phone via towers.
> Clinton liked these kinds of laws, just like all television broadcast
> signals must be digital by a certain year; all channels must be high
> def by a certain year; etc.. Stupid, unConstitutional BS.

I almost forgot the law requiring phone number portability - "a phone
number that will follow you for your entire life" as he so ignorantly
praised it.
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