Police can just GPS you.

Who said anything about commies?

 

If your cell phone is on, it's possible to locate it by someone calling it, even if it is not equipped with GPS. Pings are sent to and from the phone when it's called. By analyzing the timing of the return pings at a number of cell tower antennas at various locations, it's possible to locate the cell phone (similar to GPS method but not as accurate).

It can be good or bad. If you were unconscious and needed help and your phone was near you and turned on, authorities could locate you. If you don't want them to locate you, then it's bad.

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Well, I did. Spying on commies was cool, especially spying on people like Rita McNeil and using cool wiretaps for decades to infiltrate those dirty commie plans. Can't you at least smile? I'll wear a clown nose if it'll knock some humour into you, tonight.

 

If someone from the government really bothers to listen to your every conversation through a relatively shitty microphone, why would you care?

 

That's not the point.

 

In the U.S. you used to be able to listen to long distance land line phone calls by receiving their satellite signals with a dish. They weren't encrypted back in the 80s and earlier but some equipment was needed to receive the signals. Hobbyists did it. It was easy for other governments to listen to the American general public and know what they were thinking.

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It's my point, to the OP

Moreso is paranoia, and that entire post.

 

just because the software isn't booted doesn't mean the constituent bits can't get power

and cell phones have gps's in them, every one sold in america presently.

 

Locating a cell phone without using GPS:

http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/7893282.html

The last paragraph in the article states that permission from a judge is needed in order for law enforcement to access this data.

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this is bullshit.. I took a used cell phone made a distress call with it and tossed it to the side with its power up till it died, they never looked for it. fact they hung up..

. I called it back and said thanks alot gps Im dead.. wtf..

 

Does anyone know if this type of activity applies to blackberries or iPhone devices and the like???

 

Yes, it does... it applies to all this wifi technology.

 

How much of this goes on in Canada?