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Nowadays, more and more people are making use of GPS tracking systems, which can pinpoint the location of a person, accurate to a few yards. The cause of worry of many privacy advocates is that police is using this method to track suspects. Should the government be allowed to track your every move?

Surprisingly, those most immediately affected are those who arouse the least sympathy in the general public. William Bradley Jackson was convicted of murdering his daughter after the police secretly attached a GPS device to his truck and tracked him when he went to dig up her original, shallow grave and took her body someplace where he could conceal her more thoroughly. Without that, they might never have been able to convict him – but they didn’t have any sort of warrant or judicial oversight for their actions. Before gathering this particular piece of evidence, he was a suspect, not a convict.

So, this brings us to the essential question: Should GPS Tracking be allowed to track the movements of citizens? This technology can be potentially abused to accomplish many dangerous things and cases of police abusing technology is not new. So, a law regarding GPS Tracking should be immediately framed and enforced.

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has begun investigating whether eBay’s ban on all online payment methods except PayPal breaks Australian laws. As APC reported last week, sellers are furious at eBay’s plans to make PayPal effectively compulsory for all purchasers. The story has garnered ongoing media attention, including a report on Channel Nine’s A Current Affair featuring commentary from APC.

Many users on eBay’s discussion boards and elsewhere have said they plan to complain to the ACCC, claiming violation of trades practices laws. Anticipating those kinds of problems, eBay last week lodged an application with the ACCC, seeking immunity from such prosecution if the plans are implemented, on the grounds that using other methods can result in a “bad buyer experience” (or, in eBay-speak, a “BBE”.) Users can respond to the proposal until May 2 by sending comments to adjudication@accc.gov.au.

eBay confirms global plot

When asked last week by APC if the Australian plan would be enacted elsewhere, eBay was non-committal. “This is an Australian initiative, but eBay does clearly look at what works in markets and what doesn’t,” eBay trust and safety director Alastair MacGibbon said at the time.

However, in its post-results earning call this week, CEO John Donahoe made it clear that the plan was indeed a pilot, and could be rolled out in months if successful in Australia. “Globally, PayPal will continue to focus on greater penetration into the Marketplaces business,” its financial announcement ominously notes.

Change continues apace elsewhere on the eBay site. In another shift likely to invite controversy, eBay will start keeping track of the computers used by regular sellers, in an attempt to cut-down on “account takeovers” (where someone logs into another account and uses it for fraudulent purposes).

“From now on the system will be noting the computers members regularly use when buying and selling on eBay,” eBay said in an announcement on its site. “Then in June, we’ll begin checking the computer you use to list an item to see if it’s one you regularly use.”

Source : APCMag.com

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