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Should GPS be installed in all vehicles to help solve crime?

Is GPS vehicle tracking invading privacy?

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 44.4%

  • No

    Votes: 5 55.6%
  • Total voters
    9
  • Poll closed .
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Sorry to have a spin-off from the other GPS thread but this came to mind. If it were possible to do a GPS track of all vehicles at a crime scene how would this affect your view on invasion of privacy. I personally think it would be great if this were in practice. How do you feel?
 
creativedreams said:
Sorry to have a spin-off from the other GPS thread but this came to mind. If it were possible to do a GPS track of all vehicles at a crime scene how would this affect your view on invasion of privacy. I personally think it would be great if this were in practice. How do you feel?
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Do you believe the governemt should be able to locate your car (and, by extention, you) at any given moment?

If you do not, then you should answer 'no' to the poll.
 
In light of the warrantless wiretaps of recent news, we all should realize, if you have a cell phone the government is able to do this. The latest cell phones all have GPS tracking built in. How hard do you think it would be for them to get the records from the phone companies?
 
Goobieman said:
Do you believe the governemt should be able to locate your car (and, by extention, you) at any given moment?

If you do not, then you should answer 'no' to the poll.
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I have nothing to hide. Besides if it helps track some of those human monster out there kidnapping young children all the better.
 
Phoenix said:
In light of the warrantless wiretaps of recent news, we all should realize, if you have a cell phone the government is able to do this. The latest cell phones all have GPS tracking built in. How hard do you think it would be for them to get the records from the phone companies?
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I don't think its a big deal for the government to be able to tap your phone for 3 or 5 or maybe even 15 days before it needs to get a warrant.

After all, if you have nothing to hide, what's the big deal?
 
creativedreams said:
I have nothing to hide. Besides if it helps track some of those human monster out there kidnapping young children all the better.
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If you believe that you would feel safer with giving the government permission to track your vehicles, or better yet you and your children, by all means I believe you have the right to submit yourself to their tracking devices. But they should not have the authority to force people into being "trackable".
 
GPS and RFID tracking should explicitly be forbidden from the government.
 
WI Crippler said:
If you believe that you would feel safer with giving the government permission to track your vehicles, or better yet you and your children, by all means I believe you have the right to submit yourself to their tracking devices. But they should not have the authority to force people into being "trackable".
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Your papers please......
 
WI Crippler said:
Its one thing to control entry into our country, its another to track us while living here.
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I was making a reference to Nazi Germany ala a stereotype in many WWII films not passports so to say.
 
Goobieman said:
I don't think its a big deal for the government to be able to tap your phone for 3 or 5 or maybe even 15 days before it needs to get a warrant.

After all, if you have nothing to hide, what's the big deal?
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{sarcasm intended} ....I hope....
 
winston53660 said:
I was making a reference to Nazi Germany ala a stereotype in many WWII films not passports so to say.
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Not a stereotype, my German language teacher was originally from there and said it was a fact, everyone was documented by papers, and it was a crime to be in public without them. But otherwise, great reference.
 
I will support this only after full transparency laws have been adopted by the government.
 
LaMidRighter said:
Not a stereotype, my German language teacher was originally from there and said it was a fact, everyone was documented by papers, and it was a crime to be in public without them. But otherwise, great reference.
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I stand corrected, thanxs.
 
Goobieman said:
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After all, if you have nothing to hide, what's the big deal?
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Well, maybe we do have something to hide, all of us.

Come on, this argument reeks of bull**** and doesn't make a lick of sense. Who the hell DOESN'T have something to hide? What IS having nothing to hide anyway? :roll:



Hope I don't sound to aggrovated or whatnot, I just got off a flight (about an hour ago, really) - shaken like a tin can with little kids kicking my seat and screaming while landing in an airplane.
 
Travelsonic said:
Come on, this argument reeks of bull**** and doesn't make a lick of sense. Who the hell DOESN'T have something to hide? What IS having nothing to hide anyway? :roll:
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Just applying the arguments people often make regarding waiting periods and background checks for gun purchases.
 
this one has it all covered on page 1.

"If you have nothing to hide..." and "Think about the children".

:rofl
 
I'm not comfortable with it, nor will I be. It would seem that a decent amount of people are in favor of protection at the cost of freedom. How silly.
 
creativedreams said:
Sorry to have a spin-off from the other GPS thread but this came to mind. If it were possible to do a GPS track of all vehicles at a crime scene how would this affect your view on invasion of privacy. I personally think it would be great if this were in practice. How do you feel?
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I say no,thats like forcing every honest law abiding citizen to submit fingerprints or to wear a tracking device. It is none of the governments damn business where you drive. Its **** like this that through a process of incrementation that can work it's way into something worse than just the government tracking where everyone drives. People seem to forget that the government is supposed to be our bitches not the other way around,they are merely servants of the people.
 
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