Quote Originally Posted by iego View Post
This doesn't sound good from many aspects, the aspect I am currently thinking about is privacy.

At one transceiver every 500 feet, it almost sounds like everyone will be walking around in a mine field. Or sonar field, let's call it.

I'm sure that with triangulation, ping, etc., they can isolate down to the individual walking (with or without their cell phone) and now we have Government knowing, if not who, that someone is walking west on 120th avenue. I don't like it.

The other immediate concern I have is Robotics, which as I understand is a large part of why 5G is being adopted.

Robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) are all real things. They sound like science fiction, but they are here.

5G is here to help that technology take off. And in general, it's not good for you or I (although there will likely be a killer app, or two) it's valuable to the Government, Military and Industrial complex.

-John
They can already track that with 4G. It's not the resolution that they'll have with 5G in large metro areas, but your 4G phone is tracking (at minimum) 2 towers at any given time (more common is 3+ towers). This is of course unless there is only one available (unlikely anymore).

As Tfogger mentioned, they have distance to "Tower" data for every connected device, and they can get a pretty tight pinpoint with just 2 towers and your phone.

Robotics and IoT are going to be large consumers, and yes, that poses a lot of questions/concerns for those of us that like our 4th Amendment rights, but it's all being sold by private corporations as "better access for YOU, the consumer".

Despite all the promises, the thing that the providers are really selling is better access to the "product" that they sell... Information on us. Humanity is literally their product.

Despite what Snowden did being illegal, everyone should read and understand what he has shared. It's literally terrifying the level of detail and information that private corporations legally gather and then sell/give to their buddies or any 3-letter/.gov/NGA/etc about their primary product, the people that use their services.

Quote Originally Posted by TFOGGER View Post
With towers 500 feet apart, between triangulation and Distance to Tower data, they'll be able to locate phones to within a couple of feet, all without having to get a warrant for GPS data...
Yep. And they happily cooperate with LE/etc. No more warrants for location information.

Tied to the fact that Amazon, Google, FB, and all the others get permission to listen/watch via the devices we all run around with, and you have effectively signed away all expectation of privacy.