Like I mentioned before, smart phones are great tracking devices. If mine can pinpoint my exact location for me at anytime, it can do it for anyone else who wants to check out where I go and maybe what I do. Fortunately, I don't go anywhere or do much that is illegal, so I say "spin your wheels" checking me out if you want.
You can grouse about this stuff all you like. I am not so sure people in other countries have anymore freedom than we do though. It's Orson Wells 1984 and Big Brother is watching! What's your plan to counteract this?
Smart phones are to be left at home if you are up to no good, this has been common knowledge for some time now. However, A mate of mine in an HMP in the UK has still met a shit load of people that SOCA managed to fuck over for 10/15 (years) just on the evidence gathered from their phone alone.
They put a big family tree in crown court, showing the connections, not between family members, but between phones
The jury come back = guilty on all counts.
As far as freedoms go, I have a client who's brother works in the CBI, so I have a fairly good idea on what these guys are looking at. Let's just say if you are NOT Pakistani or involved in plotting explosions, other terrorist activities, you are not of real interest.
Now let's look at the UK shall we, more CCTV per capita than any other country in the world. The we have the "expansion of the right of investigatory powers" put in to power by 'Tony Blair' on a busy news day (not many had even heard of it).
Now come to Mumbai & show me the CCTV for over 22 Million of us (not including the slum dwellers, who do not show up officially). I can go from here (Andheri West) to the North of the island in complete anonymity (take the battery out of your phone & leave it at home). Try that in London, & the amount of times you will be caught on camera will make the shit in your lower intestines curdle.
Let's just make it easy - if you are in the city, either on the underground or the street/on a bus, you can be tracked in real time every step of the way, from camera to camera. Now that is freedom
PT