Comments on: Qualcomm's Xiam Tells You Where It's At

By: Giving ourselves enough Latitude to hang ourselves with — Shooting at Bubbles

Giving ourselves enough Latitude to hang ourselves with — Shooting at Bubbles — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:09:07 +0000

[...] in the first place. In the first instance it isn’t like what Google has done is anything new which some folks quite rightly pointed out. It would seem to be another case of it’s because it’s Google [...]

By: Jonah

Jonah — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:29:03 +0000

Put the above Technology together with the Technology below & what do we have “MASS SPYWARE!”

Social Manipulation & Demographic distortions of Societies themselves!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/16/mobile-phone-internet-advertising

By: Giving ourselves enough Latitude to hang ourselves with - WinExtra

Giving ourselves enough Latitude to hang ourselves with - WinExtra — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:36:31 +0000

By: Jonah

Jonah — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:32:01 +0000

I’m talking about Users legitimate complaint about retaining control of what/when/how they use their time & space!

I am not overly paranoid about anyone knowing where I am, I am just not prepared to let any system take control of anything which should be left within the Users control!

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:44:15 +0000

@Jonah

I’ve never seen a mobile phone with built-in GPS that didn’t have a way to turn it off.

As for backchat channels, what are you talking about? Are you talking about the control channel information that can also be used to locate a user (and cannot be disabled with the phone still being usable) or are you talking about something else?

This all seems like paranoia to me. Landlines also allow easy location of the user and monitoring of his traffic. If you really care about this stuff, switch to prepaid cell phones (aka burners) and replace often. If you’ve got a fixed phone number, you can be tracked . . .

By: Jonah

Jonah — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:33:19 +0000

Yeah GPS is great, so are all those backchat channels hidden from the Mobile User!

But where are the ON/OFF Selections so that the Mobile User can decide what/when/how /why to use them!

Guess who knows about the technology & because of that NEVER USES a Mobile Phone!

By: bluecar1

bluecar1 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:13:20 +0000

not one i would opt in for,
how does it work out which restuarant to recommend? customer ratings? rac stars? or who pays the most to place the advert?

also sounds like a good reason to keep using my trusty old nokia 6210, i kept it yet again when offered an upgrade at work to a shiny new samsung running windows mobile due to the samsungs rubbish battery life, complex functionality and its built in gps module, my boss was comfused when i registered it, took the sim out and gave it back to him unused

this just proves how right i was

where i am, what i look at, who i phone is private information, telco have my permission to use it for billing only, i wish to keep it that way, i get enough adverts on bill boards and free papers, just don’t need anymore on a phone as well

so telco’s roll this out at your peril if you want to see customer churn rise, numbers fall

peter

By: Jonah

Jonah — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:37:46 +0000

Typical modern misuse of technology; there are plenty of other places where this type of Technology would be useful especially in this current Economic Slump!

But to use it for Serving Ads & tracking Users most of which will be unwanted , I class as a misuse to put it mildly!

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:59:38 +0000

Pete, sounds like you’d join me in not opting into the service.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:18:49 +0000

Three things I don’t want a communication company to provide to anyone else;

What I send & receive.
Who I communication with.
Where I am.

Its a principle called client confidentiality, and a telco that can’t provide that to me can take their service, and leave.

“Client confidentiality is the principle that an institution or individual should not reveal information about their clients to a third party without the consent of the client or a clear legal reason.”