GPS - 'TRACK' TRICK - CITY CELLPHONE FOLLOWS TIME-CARD 'CHEATER' HOME

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'TRACK' TRICK - CITY CELLPHONE FOLLOWS TIME-CARD 'CHEATER' HOME

Hans-Georg Michna

2007-08-31, 4:33 am

By DAVID SEIFMAN

August 30, 2007 -- A 21-year employee of the school system could
lose his job after officials accused him of repeatedly leaving
early - and stunned the worker with data it got by tracking his
movements with a city-issued cellphone, The Post has learned.

In a precedent-setting case, administrative trial judge Tynia
Richard recommended the firing of John Halpin, a veteran
supervisor of carpenters, for cutting out before the end of his
shift on as many as 83 occasions between March 2 and Aug. 9,
2006.

[...]

But there was a clincher: data gathered through the GPS system
on Halpin's cellphone, which he accepted in 2005 without being
told it might be used to trace his every move.

Read the full article at:
http://www.nypost.com:80/seven/0830...track_trick.htm

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