Tracking People Via Cell Phone

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."

Comments

Next big thing

[Burdell]

Next they'll realize that they can track nerds via /. posts.

Re:Next big thing

[dubiousmike]

Is THAT why I got a /. free tatoo at the last Slashdot Meetup?!? I was wondering why it kept tingling and glowing in the dark...

Easy to get around..

[onion2k]

Its easy to avoid.. just stand very, very still.

Re:Easy to get around..

[MoneyT]

I thought that only worked for large dinosaurs in the middle of a theme park gone haywire

Dear Slashgods

[Rogerborg]

Hear my prayer. Smite down the hordes that posteth about triangulation and about GPRS, for they have not read the linked-to article. Curse them with boils and locusts and bad, bad karma, and banisheth also those that moderate them up, for they do spill their karma upon the stony ground. As in Kuro5hin, so shall it be on Slashdot, for ever and ever, amen.

Re:Good heavens, through walls?

[Anonvmous Coward]

"The UK has discovered that radio waves can go through walls now?"

Actually, there is a fairly old invention that does allow one to see through walls. It's called a 'window'.

Re:Good heavens, through walls?

[Anonymous Brave Guy]

The UK has discovered that radio waves can go through walls now?

Yep, if you want to stop undesirable signals coming in these days, you need to build your house with one of these new-fangled "fire walls". As a bonus, your heating bills go way down, though you do have to be careful about the roof, since it's only held up by hot air.