Why block your own wireless signal? Quotes

“FCC Declines to Issue Rules on Wireless Location Information”
- FCC, August 12, 2002

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“Some carriers, including AT&T, Verizon and Sprint PCS have told the FCC that its premature to adopt any rules governing location privacy practices, including an opt-in provision.”
- govTech net

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“Under the E911 mandate, carriers could track phones embedded with GPS chips, even when they aren't turned on.”
- Wired Magazine, Sept 20, 2001

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“Does this mean that location-sensing technology can never be used to find or track people without their express consent? Probably not.”
- GPS / Cellular Provider, 2002

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““A study from Gartner titled “Eavesdropping on the Device in Your Pocket” argues that the number of wireless-device types that include transmitting capabilities is quickly expanding beyond mobile phones, handheld computers, and pagers, to toys, cameras, consumer audio devices, digital radios, and medical tracking devices.”

“The report also concludes, however, that new kinds of privacy issues will be raised by these trends. “Average citizens are likely to be unaware of the amount of information that could potentially be gleaned by monitoring the devices they carry,” says the report.”
- Pocket Privacy Concerns
- April 5, 2002, By Sebastian Rupley

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““Wireless is the next battle,” Stanley insisted. “Privacy will become the main countervailing force against the Information Revolution and its radical effects on the free flow of data.””
- Wireless: The Next Battle In Privacy
- March 6, 2001, By Brian McDonough, MbizCentral

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“Companies promise they won't misuse or abuse such information. Until they're heading toward financial ruin, that is.”
- Living With Big Brother
- by Alex Gronke, Alex Leviton, journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/technology

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“Just think of Santa. He knows when you are sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good, for goodness' sake. And he knows these things all the time, even though you can't see him.”

“As Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, starkly told reporters in 1999, “You already have zero privacy. Get over it.””
- Big Brother Logs On
- By Ivan Amato , MIT Technology Review, September 2001

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“Abuses of privacy will occur from wireless signal location, just as they already occur from many other means. Individual privacy into the future cannot be protected by trying to stop new technologies that may be used to violate privacy. Instead, the industry should do what it can to identify the risks of abuse implicit in any technology or application, working hand-in-hand with privacy advocates and customers, and should adopt strong protective (and self-protective) measures.”
- A dialogue on privacy issues and wireless location services
- wliaonline.com/publications

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Wareable Computers

“However, the same elements that offer such easy access to the e-world can also result in a massive accumulation of information by marketers and others. Each way this wireless world will transform our lives (e.g., instant access to information without being deskbound, buying with no human intermediary to collect money, and personalized and localized advertisements) can also make us vulnerable to the intrusive activity of data gatherers.”
- Mobile Devices Offer Online Information
- Jackie Fenn, VP, Research Fellow, Gartner

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Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

“Place a call from your cell phone and you may be disappointed to see just who is lurking around the corner: an IRS agent, your ex-spouse's attorney, a city official with all of last year's unpaid parking tickets, and hundreds and hundreds of unsolicited messages and advertisements.

While the new technology may be put to many beneficial uses, the prospect of big companies and big government knowing where a person is whenever he uses a wireless device raises serious privacy concerns.”
- Emerging Wireless Privacy Issues and the Law
- By James A. Harvey and Christopher M. Rosselli

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