W. David Stephenson blogs on homeland security et al.


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I'd like to see this real-time, location-based service put to better use..The fact that radar detectors are legal in most states have always gotten my goat -- I've never bought the idea that people who know there's a cop nearby will drive more cautiously in general (when was the last time you saw a grandmother whose windshield sported one of those devices??). So, it's no wonder that while I yield to no one in my love of real-time, location-based services as they apply to terrorism prevention and response, I gotta real problem with this approach, as practiced in the UK, Switzerland, and Denmark: people sign up based on the neighborhoods where they normally drive, then get SMS text messages about where police have speed traps at the current moment.Nonetheless, I can see how the same technology could be used more constructively in an emergency, to let people know where roads were blocked, there were fires, etc.Technorati tags: homeland security War on Terror antiterrorism smart mobs smart mobs for homeland security government IT location-based services disaster planning

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