On-Star: Knows where you've been.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I'm afraid you are wrong on that account. A cell phone can be used to track and even eavesdrop on you even when it is turned off.

How would you feel about this officer being able to track Maddy's every move? After all if she's done nothing wrong then you don't have any worries right?

[katiesue]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

How would you feel about this officer being able to track Maddy's every move? After all if she's done nothing wrong then you don't have any worries right?

But any wackadoodle could camp out by her school and track her that way. There will always be some creepy person doing something.

On the other hand were she do turn up missing her phone could be used to find her. So you have to take the good with the bad.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by katiesue

But any wackadoodle could camp out by her school and track her that way. There will always be some creepy person doing something.

On the other hand were she do turn up missing her phone could be used to find her. So you have to take the good with the bad.

So this does not worry you?

Originally Posted by News

Peterson used official law-enforcement databases to check up on his fourth wife and her associates before she disappeared. Peterson's attorney says it was common practice for Bolingbrook police to run checks for friends and family, and to run prank names to alleviate boredom.

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by katiesue

Data mining doesn't bother me at all. If my gps could tell the supermarket that I'm almost there and my fridge could tell the gps to tell the market I'm out of eggs and they would be waiting for me at checkstand 3 I'd be all over it.

[JWBear]

OnStar spokesman Jim Kobus said the service does not track subscribers' vehicles.

Which makes sense. Why would the company track and record your car's every move? That's a lot of data to store, and storing massive amounts of data costs money. How would they profit?

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Which makes sense. Why would the company track and record your car's every move? That's a lot of data to store, and storing massive amounts of data costs money. How would they profit?

Make a deal with the local towns. They have cameras to catch you if you run a red light. Why not send out a ticket when your speed exceeds the speed limit? They have all the pieces, your speed and your location. It could all be automated easily.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by JWBear

Which makes sense. Why would the company track and record your car's every move? That's a lot of data to store, and storing massive amounts of data costs money. How would they profit?

I think your idea of "massive" is a bit outdated.

A set of GPS coordinates can easily be stored in a single long-integer.

That means a single $400 Terabyte drive could hold something like 137,438,953,472 position records. Let's say I'd like to track a car for every person living in Los Angeles (~9,949,081). With just the hard drive atached to my own personal PC I could track 13,814 descreet locations per car.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by DreadPirateRoberts

Make a deal with the local towns. They have cameras to catch you if you run a red light. Why not send out a ticket when your speed exceeds the speed limit? They have all the pieces, your speed and your location. It could all be automated easily.

Any minute now, Sylvester Stallone is going to jump out from behind a bush and knit a sweater.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Related: In at least one case, records from a Fast-Track automated highway toll system have been used to prove in a divorce case that someone was cheating on his wife.

[katiesue]

I dated a cop in the 80's and my best friend's mom was a highway patrol dispatcher. This has all been common forever. Her mom would always "check out" her dates.