Global Positioning Systems Gps On Cell Phones

Do you know who is tracking your movements when your turn on your cell phone, or what is being done with that information? These are questions that I recently had to ask myself after reading two insightful articles. The first was by Ronald Bailey called “Your Cellphone is Spying on You” and the other was by Terry J. Allen entitled “Reach Out and Track Someone”. In Ronald Bailey’s article, he explores the use of cellular phone tracking technology by law enforcement and their recent attempts to expand the surveillance laws to include more use of cell phones to track users’ movements without their knowledge. In addition he gives us some perspective on the idea of a big brother watching over us by examining what a

Almost everyone in the United States has a smartphone with a camera. The cameras on smartphones are also not as safe as we think. As said in an article by Peter Maass and Megha Rajagopalan titled That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker, “Cellular systems constantly check and record the location of all phones on their networks – and this data is particularly treasured by police departments and online advertisers”. This is an example how the government can access even our smartphones. They can get private information on you if they pleased violating our right to privacy. Every year, private companies spend millions of dollars developing new services that track, store and share the words, movements and even thoughts of their customers” states Paul Ohm in the article titled That’s No Phone. That’s My

The espionage of the United States’ government is a controversial issue these days. Espionage is the gathering of information without the permission or warrant of the holder of the information. Within the rapid technological development, the variety of tools for espionage are available in the United States; it can be obtained by tracking, surveillance, wiretapping, etc. Specifically, Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking system is one of the significant topics for espionage. Recently, many people including drivers, hikers, and manufacturers often use GPS to see the directions to their destinations, to locate themselves one a trail map, or to keep track of their delivering products. However, today’s controversy with GPS device is that police also uses it to determine suspects’ locations and movements. It is the most advanced technological device to effectively track and monitor suspects and offenders using satellites. Therefore, some people argue that the use of GPS tracking should be increased and should not need warrants, while others assert that GPS devices to track suspects raise legal problems, so Supreme Court should limits police use of GPS tracking. There are many positive and negative aspects of it. According to the article “Do Police Need Warrants For GPS Tracking Devices?,” the author says that the reason for controversy of GPS tracking devices is that “Police, quite naturally, want to use new technology to get the goods on the bad guys, and citizens, quite

Location is one of the biggest privacy issues we are dealing with today. Social media is the biggest example of having issues with location. When downloading or updating any app notifications pop up and most people just agree to them and not actually read it. “...When users attempt to download apps or media from the

Everyone who owns a smartphone is being tracked, plain and simple. Conversations, web sites recently visited, web cookies, call data, it is all swept up by government surveillance. As mentioned in the article “That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker,” cellphone carriers responded over a million times to law enforcements for call data requests, and it is later stated in the article that “Many police agencies don’t obtain search warrants when requesting location data from carriers.”(Maass and

While Swartz and Allen agree that the use cell phone tracking logs must be monitored and used cautiously, they strongly disagree on the role cell phone companies, law enforcement and government are playing in monitoring the use of the technology. I find Swartz’s view to be based in logic and not emotion. The view that Swartz presents is more balanced. She believes that the government and judicial system are working diligently to ensure that the rights of citizens are protected. In this article Swartz does not seem to recognize the invasion of privacy that this technology poses, she also seems to ignore the way that police and state could abuse the technology.

Today, we can send information all over the world instantly; however movement and activities can be tracked through computers and cell phones. With new and improved technology, it can improve lives, increase public safety, build wealth and promote efficiencies in how we use scarce resources. Researchers,

In addition, the police is using the GPS for location tracking. In the article, DesMarais,2012. “This Smartphone Tracking Tech Will Give You the creeps.” It explains that the IPS allows pinpoint tracking of any WiFi enabled device, such as a smartphone or tablet.

GPS tracking like in the movie is only effective, if the person is in possession of technological device. The government uses signal intelligence to spot out a target. The process of signals intelligence is collecting metadata from phones and computer communications

This shows how the government takes the time to spend money just to get information using these advanced devices. Maass & Rajagopalan states, “ Cellular systems constantly check and record the location of all phones on their networks…. Data is treasured by the police department & online advertisers (Maass & Rajagopalan, 2012). This shows we are being tracked by our devices, also how much the government is watching

With the evolution of technology and the internet, there have been upcoming concerns concerning information privacy. The internet has increased the level of information that can be gathered and analyzed. Over the last decade, there have been groundbreaking improvements in technology which have enhanced whet people can d with the technology at any given time. For instance, through the use of the internet, one can use global system positioning system locators to acquire real time data about a person or object’s movement and speed. This was not nearly possible thirty years ago. Another example is that cell phones embedded with E-911 services can be used to locate an individual’s precise location (Waldo, Lin and Millett, 2007). Such devices are mostly used by parents to monitor their children’s whereabouts.

The modern GPS can be very useful if someone gets lost or if they don’t know where they are going but it also has some downside. The GPS could give away the users information by turning on the location so

If this doesn’t scream an invasion of privacy, I don’t know what does. This is the exact type of thing that is portrayed in George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen-Eighty Four’. The government has the ability to see where we are all the time just through the apps on our phones, just like the telescreens in the novel.

The law enforcement industry, is just one example, of an organization that has embraced GPS technology because it has made their jobs easier, safer, and more productive. All these elements add up to costs savings, in nearly every area of law enforcement. GPS tracking systems help police officers to, not only know where the good guys are, it helps them to know where the bad guys are. Tracking devices give paramedics, fire response teams, and police officers the ability to rapidly respond to calls in cities, across the nation, and many are discovering that GPS tracking devices have other valuable applications for law enforcement. Using GPS devices in a variety of situations, law enforcement personnel

“Originally designed for military and intelligence applications at the height of the Cold War, the global positioning system is a network of satellites that orbit the earth at fixed points above the planet” (“Using GPS,” 2014). In an effort to improve performance and reduce expenses, many police departments have adopted the use of GPS trackers for surveillance and other purposes. In the past, officers would have the tedious job of following criminals on foot for days or even months at a time. Using these devices for vehicle pursuing provides police departments with instantaneous information and helps them operate more effectively. However, some privacy issues surrounding GPS use by