Re: Position escrow

[Phil Karn <karn@homer.ka9q.ampr.org>]

>Regardless of the type of phone, the cell stations can be designed to do
>time-of-arrival comparisons on the signal transmitted from the phone and
>calculate a reasonably accurate position.  If you don't want your location
>known, don't transmit.

Ultimately, this is true. But there's still a practical difference
between having to do it with a labor-intensive manual process like
"foxhunting" and making it automatic and routine on a large scale.

Phil