"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"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




The Onstar system is GPS based, so they can find you in an accident. Or if
the vehicle is stolen . . . maybe. If the thief removes the little antenna,
no more tracking. Soon there will be no phones without the GPS reciever. I
actually worked on the first iteration. Since the 911 emergency system has
a hard time finding a cell phone, they wanted the ability to help find the
phone in an emergency. Have not heard of any tracking of vehicles for
divorce settlements, etc. via the onboard navigation system, but the Fastrak
transponders have been.