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The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that for your future metre-level accuracy navigating pleasure, satellites Galileo 11 and 12 are now fully operational and "broadcasting working navigation signals". The pair launched from Kourou, French Guiana, last December. Since then, the onboard navigation kit has been …
I guess we'll see Galileo compatibility appearing in consumer kit from next year of the year after. But initially the early adopters will be commercial seeking to take advantage of Galileo's higher spatial resolution, especially altitude.
Anyone happen to know the expected lifetime of the existing GPS/Glonass satellites?
Neither system tracks you. They can't, you're just a passive receiver of signals, from which your device calculates its position. Your device does not send anything to those satellites.
The tracking starts when your device sends that calculated position to Google, Apple etc. And they track you without GPS, knowing which WiFi access points and GSM towers are within range tells them all they need to know.
Switch off mobile data and WiFi if you don't want to be tracked.
>I hate to break it to you but your none smart phone will be able to track you just as easily.
He could randomly randomise its IMEI... That'd quickly correct his quaint view of his right to privacy...
>Unless you're doing something of particular interest to law enforcement...
@Martin Summers - you are just inconveniencing yourself.
Or liberating yourself from the 24/7 email/contact drudgery that people seem to assume nowadays...
Says the man who uses a feature phone - and a 4G tablet... D'Oh.
Personally I think the tablet does it's job better than a stupidly oversized phone could, and I'd rather my phone had a week or more of battery life...
If you don't want to be tracked, why are you using a phone? It's a transmitter, as soon as you switch it on 'they' know where you are!
If you don't want to be tracked, you shouldn't be using ANY electronic device, but then you may still be visible from the hole you leave as you move around.
If you want to be paranoid: It probably wont be long before anyone who doesn't appear to be carrying a switched on phone is regarded as suspicious.