Google追踪,天涯海角都要找到你

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据国外媒体报道,谷歌现在推出通过手机定位跟踪好友的服务Latitude。分析称此举将进一步提升谷歌在手机地图服务中的优势。谷歌在周三发布允许移动用户与家人、朋友自动分享位置信息的免费新软件。而与此同时人们却担心,互联网越来越复杂的跟踪特性和巨大数据库的建立,会对个人自由构成威胁。

So Google is releasing free software that helps people keep track of each other via their cell phones. The devices use GPS systems along with something called "cell tower triangulation", which help, keeps parents keep track of their stupid kids, as well as monitoring whether you husband is really at work, or to make sure your girlfriend isn't banging a cameraman from the Glenn Beck show.

Look, this idea that everyone needs to know exactly where you are at any given time makes me wanna throw up to my eyeballs and cry through my mouth. You sited in restaurants, where a person walks in on the phone, seeking directions to their table, as though they might take a wrong turn somewhere between the door and the bar. These people would have made great pioneers.

Now I really admit that all of this new technology is pretty awesome, but it makes me long for the days when you could just disappear, and no one could find you. I once drove across country in a crappy car, with nothing but a few hundred bucks, three pairs of underwear and some pliers. I made it one piece, and never called anyone for help. Even better, because there were no cell phones back in the 80's, folks could go missing for days before other people noticed. It was a boon for me, but it's suffering to the trackers. And if you disagree with me, then you sir, well, you are worse than Hitler.