From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 19:47:20 MST
2002-11-19 17:07:02, Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@yahoo.com> wrote:
> All of the new digital cell phones (3G cellphones in
>IEEE terminology) are required to have GPS chips in them so that any
>cell phone, active or not, can be located if it has a charged battery,
>and thus whoever is in posession of said cellphone can also be located
>(note: even a deactivated cellphone can still dial 911, so it's really
>not totally inactive) It is also a crime to disable this GPS chip....
>this includes a number of other G7 nations as well as the US.
Not sure about all the details on "crime" or G3 properties, but AFAICT, if you DISCONNECT the battery
whenever you are seeking to operate "nap of the earth", the present day tech doesn't permit getting GPS
position info during such disconnected times. Hiccup! Hypotech such as non-disconnectable batteries that
can still log location is left for individual delectation. And the scannable chips are a separate
technology and might or might not piggyback on the phones; how could Joe Sixpack tell? It's all buried in
ABS and SMDs.
MMB
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