Jef Poskanzer writes:
It looks like at least some switches in Amerika are already equipped to read out locations for individual phones.
This is not actually that surprising. All they need is to know which phones are using a band on a cell site, and they narrow the search down to a relatively small area. I seriously doubt that they can do triangulation (I mean, they *could*, but there's not much likelihood that the cellular operators would incorporate something complicated and expensive but useless into the system), though they could easily track movement by noting the progess of a phone as it was handed off from cell to cell.
They probably don't even have to wait for you to make a call - they can call you, or even use the phone's automatic pings.
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