Cop Watch

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

You can turn off the tracking and still use your phone.

You could use Amazon’s Alexa with confidence that your conversations were private, until they weren’t. The details of your cell phone conversations were confidential until the Patriot Act allowed for keyword searches.

I can see a police checkpoint on the road ahead, but I can’t see when the NSA flips a setting on my phone from off to on. But sure, a built-in tracking feature won’t ever be adapted for another use in the future by any one of multiple intelligence agencies, domestic or foreign.