From: mariond@facts.com   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On all my Android/Google stuff if I log into one Google app I'm   
   >> automatically logged into all the rest of the Google apps on the device. If   
   >> Google Maps isn't on the device, when I later install it, it's logged in   
   >> with no further effort on my part. Same on this Chromebook I'm posting with   
   >> BTW. So my GUESS is that when most folks add Google Maps to their working   
   >> Android device it's signed in automatically.   
   >   
   > Certainly. Almost everybody uses their android phones logged into them,   
   > and thus, to google maps.   
      
   I concur with AJL & Carlos, where I would simply like to add value.   
      
   Just to be clear for all, while, on my phone, I can't log into my Google   
   Accounts (yes, I have many), I would agree most people almost certainly do.   
      
   But my only point about that is those same people can't logically complain   
   about the lack of privacy - where this thread is about location privacy.   
      
   > I don't personally know any friend that is not logged to Google   
   > permanently. Well, yes, some may log into Apple instead X-D   
      
   Again, I agree. I use iOS & Android every day, where every poster to both   
   groups knows how valiantly I've tried to NOT log into Cupertino servers.   
      
   You can easily not log into Palo Alto servers, but not Cupertino servers.   
      
   >   
   >>> Yup. I've had Google Maps warn me of them. Someone is reporting them.   
   >>> Maybe the CHP?   
   >>   
   >> I doubt cops would report on themselves. In my case it was definitely other   
   >> civilian users.   
   >>> I used to use a radar detector back east, where there's a speed trap   
   >>> at every intersection, but they're not so much out here in California.   
   >>   
   >> Funny story. I think you know where I'm retired from. I was working >   
   >> radar on a local street. Got a guy going way over. When he got out   
   >> of the car and saw he was caught, he grabbed his radar detector off   
   >> the dash and started stomping on it cause it apparently wasn't   
   >> working so good...  ;)   
   >   
   > Detectors are illegal here. Even carrying one might get you a fine.   
      
   Regarding the legality of radar detectors, here in the states, we generally   
   have a "freedom from government" culture in the USA (well, not in   
   California) where, in the USA, you can *receive* (almost) any radio signal.   
      
   For reasons that are kind of obvious, they're banned in commercial vehicles   
   and on US military bases, but for reasons unknown to me, they're illegal in   
   only the state of Virginia & in the district of Washington, DC. Go figure.   
      
   In California and Minnesota, you can't have anything mounted to the   
   windshield, but you can strap it to your dashboard.   
      
   But other than the two banned areas, everyone in the USA is allowed to   
   detect and interpret radio signals. I don't know how Virginia & Washington   
   DC get away with banning the reception & interpretation of radio signals.   
      
   It's the first step to loss of freedom to restrict the 1st amendment.   
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