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Bad Rap for GPS

There’s a scary story out of Palm Bay, Florida about a wacko who outfitted his wife’s car with a GPS, tracked her to her boyfriends house, and shot and killed her upon discovering she was cheating.

Posted on Wed, May 30, 2007 at 8:36AM by Registered CommenterJonathan Spinney in , | Comments1 Comment

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While any privacy protections can't stop someone from secretly planting GPS in your car, there will almost certainly be other situations where a previously trusted user of your location information will need to be "turned off," and LBS providers will need to make it easy to do so. More on privacy issues at www.LBSGlobe.com.

05-31-2007 | Unregistered CommenterDavid Williams

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