"Jim" wrote in message
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If you get in an accident they can tell how fast you were going, how hard
you hit the brakes, and how far you skidded. Everyone is stalking you. And
it is all perfectly legal.

Scary, Huh?


You bring up an interesting subject. When I bought my new truck .... ooops
... forgot JimH still reads here ....

Anyway, as I was saying, when I bought my new truck it had an optional GPS
"locater" already installed.
It is advertised as being better than having LoJack, according to the
salesman.

I asked the salesman to take it out, because I didn't want it. No can do,
he says. But, after reading the directions that came with it, there is an
activation process required to initialize the service's tracking of your
vehicle.
I took the activation process paperwork out of the truck and put it in my
desk in the house.
If the truck ever gets stolen, *that's* when I'll call up and activate the
GPS locator service.

There is something bothersome to me about unknown people having the ability
to track down your location whenever they want and for whatever purpose they
want. I don't want the world to know I am 1000 miles away from home,
driving my truck. I want them to think I could be pulling up the driveway
at any moment.

Same with the new cell phones. I made sure mine did not have a built in
GPS transmitter.

Eisboch