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Call it a tracker, not a phone — that’s more app

- Jul 15, 2012 2:29 pm

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The genie is out of the bottle — smartphones track your every movement for law enforcement and travel apps’ developers purposes. The backlash is coming.

— Dennis Schaal

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THE device in your purse or jeans that you think is a cellphone — guess again. It is a tracking device that happens to make calls. Let’s stop calling them phones. They are trackers.