Your cellphone, a goverenment tracking device you pay for.

Your cellphone is a double edged sword.

On one hand it is a tool that can be used as a phone, to read your email, look at webpages, for getting directions, etc. On the other hand it is a tracking device that can be used against you and to keep tabs on you.

All smartphones sold today come with built in GPS. You can use it to find your location and figure out how to get where you want to go. It can also be used to track your movements. As of the writing of this post (June, 2016) the average 4G cell phone sold in North America has a GPS accuracy  of 3 meters, about 9 feet. This means the cell phone  GPS can tell the difference between you standing in front of your car or behind. With a special app installed on your phone your phone can be tracked and, in effect, you are being tracked.

Normally the tracking app has to be installed on your phone which means someone has to physically install the app. Most cell phones in North America are either iPhones, about 28% of the market,  or Android which is about 67% http://www.ibtimes.com/apples-ios-still-getting-crushed-android-us-2130868. The rest is either Windows phones of Blackberries. Both iPhone and Android are alike in that their is a central repository for apps to be installed on your phone.

The aftermath of the Occupy movement.

It's been 5 years since the occupation of Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. Now is the time to look back and see where we are. While the Occupy movement is no longer on the evening news their influence still felt. Were once no one was talking about income inequality now it is a subject that is often discussed in most political debets. The mainstream media, which is owned by the very people who benefit from the status quo find that they can no longer avoid the subject. But make no mistake this is a subject they very much want to go away.

2016 is a presidential election year and some of the issues that the Occupy movement spoke about have become issues in the election, at least among the Democratic candidates. The Republicans, who are, heart and soul, the party of the wealthy, the privileged and the corporations, have made only passing reference to the subject and only attack each other and the Democrats. The irony is that GOP is the party that most represnts the