Thread:JoshuaFlynn/@comment-5122856-20140208172847/@comment-5122856-20140208200926

JoshuaFlynn wrote: Yep, it's actually extremely diverse and far reaching.

However, don't view the corporations as innocents, take a look at this:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/your-iphone-is-tracking-you-and-has-been-for-a-while/9985

Ask yourself why Apple (and Google with Android) would want to table an entire database of your every known whereabouts if they supposedly find the idea of a surveillance dragnet so 'shocking' and 'offensive'?

Most hardware on the lower level doesn't actually turn off even if the software says to the contrary and even if GPS wasn't working, there's something known as 'cell tower triangulation ' which can be used with any phone (even non-smart phones).

Want to get creepier? Try CELLDAR :

"The radical new system, which has outraged civil liberties groups, uses mobile phone masts to allow security authorities to watch vehicles and individuals 'in real time' almost anywhere in Britain.

The technology 'sees' the shapes made when radio waves emitted by mobile phone masts meet an obstruction. Signals bounced back by immobile objects, such as walls or trees, are filtered out by the receiver. This allows anything moving, such as cars or people, to be tracked.   "

Sound familar? It might do. It was the same technology represented in the first Dark Knight movie. It should only be used  to protect sensitive installations such as ports,  airfields, the perimeters of a nuclear power stations or at military bases.