http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07 ... -tracking/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Chances are you’ve never heard of TruePosition. If you’re an AT&T or T-Mobile customer, though, TruePosition may have heard of you. When you’re in danger, the company can tell the cops where you are, all without you knowing. And now, it’s starting to let governments around the world in on the search.
The Pennsylvania company, a holding of the Liberty Media giant that owns Sirius XM and the Atlanta Braves, provides location technology to those soon-to-be-merged carriers, so police, firefighters and medics can know where you’re at in an emergency. In the U.S., it locates over 60 million 911 calls annually. But very quietly, over the last four years, TruePosition has moved into the homeland security business — worldwide.
This software can do things like detect if an unauthorized person enters a certain location...can trace who you talk to, and who they talk to, and who they talk to...
And they are selling it to countries that may not have the same protections we think we have here in the U.S. (Thank you, Patriot Act)...
So, consider who you call...because Big Brother may be tracking...That’s what worries advocates for foreign dissidents. “This seems to be integrated a little bit deeper and the operator is fully complicit in the situation. It makes it more difficult for activists, for sure,” says Nathan Freitas of the Guardian Project, which designs anonymity tools for mobile users.
