Big Brother is Watchin…, er, Listening
By: looseheadprop Thursday May 22, 2008 9:53 am
From the London Times:
Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that listens in on the whisperings of their mobile phones.
The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route they take as they walked around.
Oh, mah freakin' gawd!
The surveillance mechanism works by monitoring the signals produced by mobile handsets and then locating the phone by triangulation – measuring the phone’s distance from three receivers.
more at:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3945496.ecehttp://firedoglake.com/2008/05/22/big-brother-is-watchin-er-listening/
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