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To: Craig Schilling who started this subject	11/10/2000 12:56:14 AM
From: Cooters	Read Replies (2) of 152472

Sprint Phone-Tracking Chip Raises Privacy Issues, WSJ Reports --From AOL.-- Cooters Westwood, Kansas, Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Sprint Corp.'s wireless unit said it will put global-positioning-system chips in its cell phones to help locate its users, a move that is expected to stir up privacy concerns that the phones could become homing devices, the Wall Street Journal reported. The No. 3 long-distance company is making the move, which will begin in the middle of 2001, to fulfill a federal mandate that all wireless service providers be able to pinpoint the location of a wireless 911 call within 100 feet by October 2001. Cell phone operators can opt to install tracking software in their wireless network, have phones include a chip with GPS technology, or a combination of the two, the newspaper said. Privacy advocates warn there are too many risks that the data could end up being misused, in part because phone users will leave electronic footprints, even as carriers say they will be the only ones with the ability to track calls. (WSJ 11/9)

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