Last night I got an email from a friend of a friend. Well, I got it from my friend, who got it from his friend. But it's definitely for real.
He works at a big telecom. I can't say which one, to protect him, but it's a big one. He's on their database team, and he says they received some kind of secret government mandate the other day to provide access to all of the geo-tracking information for the company's mobile device users. Every single user of their network and their devices will now be in the hands of some unnamed government agency, all under the table. He suspects that his company isn't the only one that got that mandate.
So I ask you: why would our government need or want to know the whereabouts of its citizens all over the world? Why would they want the power to reach out and find you at a moment's notice? And most importantly, who is going to oversee this? Who issues that command?
I don't know the answers, but the questions make me very, very nervous.
