A study secretly tracked 100,000 cell phone users' locations - what do you think?

Question

"Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home....

Nearly three-quarters of those studied mainly stayed within a 20-mile-wide circle for half a year."

This article " Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US" written by Seth Borenstein, an AP Science Writer Wed Jun 4, 2:35 PM ET, was on Yahoo! News.

Here's the link to the article if you want to read more:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080604/ap_on_sc/sci_cell_phone_tracking

*** Also, could they have been tracked if their cell phones were turned off? ***

Answer 1

I think it's bad, because that's spying. It's wrong to spy on people, not to mention it's just plain creepy.

Answer 2

I think it is good/ bad.

GOOD: they can find where crimanals secret bases are.

BAD: its not safe if a bad person got that program thingo.