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GPS Tracking and Privacy
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The Map Room links to a Guardian Unlimited article on GPS and Privacy. From the article: ""People are very willing to give up their privacy," he says. "You just have to give them a good reason to do so. If you can assist a person in their everyday life, they will be more than happy to divulge their current location." [...] Whether we're using our mobile phone, wandering around on social networking sites, or just going about our daily lives, we want to have agreed to any tracking that takes place."
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