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Location Based Services Raise Privacy Issues

The advent of devices that report user location, such as cell phones that track user location via GPS, affords commercial profilers and the government more opportunities to monitor behavior. In addition to cell phones, other devices, such as the automatic toll-paying system �EZPass,� can track drivers� location.

Cell Phones Set to Track Call Locales, Los Angeles Times, October 18, 2001.
It's the Cars, Not the Tires, That Squeal, New York Times, October 25, 2001 (registration required).