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The government has spent billions of dollars placing detection devices at our borders and in subway stations, airports and other public places. These sensors are capable of sniffing out radioactive, chemical and biological activity. However, they have an extremely limited coverage area.
To widen coverage, Homeland Security is working with cell phone manufacturers and privacy groups to establish the feasibility of a project that would jack similar sensors into GPS-equipped cell phones. If a sensor is triggered, it would transmit location data to local emergency responders and Homeland Security operations centers. While a lone signal would most likely be treated as a false positive, multiple hits in a single area would bring out the cavalry.
Theoretically, anywhere there's a gathering of a few cell phones would then be as equally prepared to deal with a terrorist attack as today's more obvious targets are. However, the idea of having the watchers at Homeland Security in our pockets at all times doesn't sit well with privacy advocates. They argue that the money for this lofty program would be better spent on manpower.
From AOL Money & Finance
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsSteveMay 4th 2007 8:37PM
Great idea, the frikkin privacy advocates that oppose it are the same people who would condone terrorist activities in the name of "free speech" or some other such crap. BTW, try a dictionary instead of just spelchek, "Calvary" was the site of Christ's crucifixion; the word you're groping for is "cavalry."
NancyMay 4th 2007 11:18PM
ditto, Steve, i couldn't agree with you more. what's really amazing though is someone who is articulate and can spell. Nancy
Roland EsquivelMay 5th 2007 12:37AM
Who's the ignoramus that doesn't know the difference between calvary and cavalry ?
Get him or her off your staff !!
What else does this dummy not know ?
Dr. Esquivel
boboMay 5th 2007 12:41AM
nancy why don't you and steve just get a room?
Mr engineerMay 5th 2007 1:58AM
Now back to the content of the story. Technically it is of course feasible, but for sure it would be difficult to sell such a cell phone. Adding that feature will make the cell phone bigger, heavier and shorten battery life. Then indeed who says the phone is not sending your location to home land security all the time? And what does the user get in return? Nada!
So you are looking at either some heafty subsidies or a new law (making the feature mandatory in all new cell phones) to make this fly.
I for one wouldn't want such a phone (and pay more to avoid it).
YesPrivacyMay 5th 2007 6:16AM
NO Steve. You & your dictionary. It was actually Jesus they cruicified. You can't cruicify a spirit.
You've not visited any counties where privacy is thought to be some city in Greenland? Try it before you run your mouth, again.
soulcageMay 5th 2007 11:31AM
Out of 5 comments, three are bitching about the writer allegedly using the word "calvary" as opposed to "cavalry.
Unless the writer changed the article word in question after the complaints, those three complainers are wrong. The writer used the correct word "CAVALRY".
Quote: "While a lone signal would most likely be treated as a false positive, multiple hits in a single area would bring out the cavalry."
Clean your freakin glasses off. Your dyslexia is showing. The writer got it right.