Although the paranoid among us fear a long-running government conspiracy to track our every move à la Orwell’s 1984—and to be sure, technology now makes that possible—the path to having GPS in every pocket was more uncertain, less coordinated and more fascinating than you might think.
Read my guest blog on the subject of privacy, “Wrap Your Cellphone in Tinfoil,” at Guyletter.com.
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