The FCC mandated that all cell phones have GPS chips to facilitate E911 calls. Land lines that 911 calls are made from always have a stationary physical location, so even if you aren't able to tell the person on the other end where you are, that information is already available to the 911 dispatchers, anyway. Not so with a cell phone. However, the E911 and GPS makes that a reality.
Cell phone GPS tracking makes it possible for parents to know where their kids are (or at least where their kid's cell phone are), and for employers to ding an employee with a company provided call phone for spending too much time at the water cooler or in the lunchroom.
Not to mention that law enforcement can use it to track you quite easily, often without a court order. Which raises huge Fourth Amendment issues.
Cell phone GPS tracking makes it possible for parents to know where their kids are (or at least where their kid's cell phone are), and for employers to ding an employee with a company provided call phone for spending too much time at the water cooler or in the lunchroom.
Not to mention that law enforcement can use it to track you quite easily, often without a court order. Which raises huge Fourth Amendment issues.
