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Tracking People Via Cell Phone

Posted by Hemos on from the not-how-you-think dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the articleat the Guardian the UK Government have been working on a project to use the widely available mobile phone masts as a form of localised radar to track both people and vehicles without their knowledge. Supposedly there is even work on the way to give this project the ability to see through walls! Maybe Philip K. Dick was right to be paranoid about governments."

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  1. Re:In Ireland... by rot26 · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    What do they do about pre-paid mobile phones?

    I suspect that you'll see the ability to anonymously buy a mobile phone go away very soon.

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  2. Why on earth mention Philip K. Dick? by Theodore+Logan · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Maybe Philip K. Dick was right to be paranoid about governments.

    Was this an attempt to sound clever? If it was, it failed spectacularly, for reasons too numerous to be worthy of explanation.

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