GPS

[Charlie]

lol - that's why i always have tinfoil on my head - stop BB reading my thoughts.

[Detection]

lol - that's why i always have tinfoil on my head - stop BB reading my thoughts.

You do that as-well ?

[JimmyW]

If you dont want to be found, dont own a mobile phone either.... they are even more accurate and can tell where you are to within five metres. The later models can even be silently "woken up" to handshake a network and thereby give your position. The only way to stop this is to destroy the handset, newer models have a backup battery system that will kick in to transmit a handshake signal even with the main battery removed.

Big Brother is indeed watching......

LOL certainly don't carry an ID swipe card with RFID capabilities then as it's accurate to 20cm

[Pete_S]

But take a look at what some of the Apps make you agree to, "Reading your SMS, GMAIL, LOCATION, What colour underwear you have on"

LOL

Seriously though, Google worrys me more than Microsoft ever did. They seem obssessed with collecting as much info about you as possible, especially the location thing. They also have a lot of our documents online, our blogs. And, they don't charge anything. The give-it-for-free thing really spooks me. No company really does that.

I keep feeling we'll wake one day and find Google have taken over most of the governments of countries in the West, a sort of cyber coup. Then we'll really regret all the details of our personal lives they have collected

[JimmyW]

"Good morning Googleville, have a thoroughly Googletastic day"

[G1dd3n]

Has anyone tried installing an app that uses GPS to check?

[JimmyW]

I've got nDrive on mine, can only do virtual navigation as there's no gps device and without being on a constant wifi connection it can't track the car live.

[G1dd3n]

Hmmm... what about using a USB GPS device? Is there any support for them?

[JimmyW]

I've tried:
USB Bluetooth dongle -> BT GPS antenna
USB GPS antenna
neither were picked up as bluetooth is not enabled in the build and the only USB devices handled in the build appear to be keyboards/mice & drives

[G1dd3n]

So the bluetooth hardware is there but just "turned off" seems like and odd thing to do.