Comment Re:push vs. pull (Score 1) 341
I don't want ANYONE to know where I am, unless I WANT them to know where I am. eg:
Permit:
1) E911 and Feds (The feds will find you anyway, even if cell phone tracking is somehow made illegal by voters.. they'll find a loophole...)
2) Perhaps a close friend, and then only if they are within a couple of blocks (The distance from the requester should be adjustable by the user, so for example, if I'm in a bar, I don't want a friend tracking me down and then ruining my good time... They shouldn't know unless the person is 5 feet away, close enough for visual ID. This option would be reinforced by completely denying some folks...)
3) Parents could track their kids... (As much as I do not like this idea, I don't think a cell phone location tracking system could exist without the parents-spying-on-kids part)
But: Without a mandatory client side (yes/no) option, EVERY time you recieve a 'ping', in the event the system is compromised, location tracking would be abused. Maybe a good implementation would be for E911 to send a token that would timeout and automatically report the location after 15 seconds. As for the Feds: There's no stopping them. In the event of a parental unit requesting their child's location: As mentioned somewhere above, if the child says no, they'll have some serious explaining to do later.
Deny:
1) Whomever one wants to, including spammers and E911 services..
Of course any sort of permit/deny list should be able to be modified by the end user and the end user only.
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Permit:
1) E911 and Feds (The feds will find you anyway, even if cell phone tracking is somehow made illegal by voters.. they'll find a loophole...)
2) Perhaps a close friend, and then only if they are within a couple of blocks (The distance from the requester should be adjustable by the user, so for example, if I'm in a bar, I don't want a friend tracking me down and then ruining my good time... They shouldn't know unless the person is 5 feet away, close enough for visual ID. This option would be reinforced by completely denying some folks...)
3) Parents could track their kids... (As much as I do not like this idea, I don't think a cell phone location tracking system could exist without the parents-spying-on-kids part)
But: Without a mandatory client side (yes/no) option, EVERY time you recieve a 'ping', in the event the system is compromised, location tracking would be abused. Maybe a good implementation would be for E911 to send a token that would timeout and automatically report the location after 15 seconds. As for the Feds: There's no stopping them. In the event of a parental unit requesting their child's location: As mentioned somewhere above, if the child says no, they'll have some serious explaining to do later.
Deny:
1) Whomever one wants to, including spammers and E911 services..
Of course any sort of permit/deny list should be able to be modified by the end user and the end user only.
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