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Baltimore to Test Cell Phone Traffic Monitoring

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the big-brother-is-listening dept.

Momoru writes "The Baltimore Sun is reporting that a Canadian company, Delcan NET, will begin testing a technology that determines the flow of automobile traffic by monitoring cell phone traffic. The company promises a revolutionary way to determine backups, but privacy advocates fear the implications of a third party tracking users by their cell phones."

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  1. Suggestion by roman_mir · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Honestly, maybe some things are worth being discussed 2-3-4-5 times, so how about introducing a new feature on /. - a pinned story? A story like that would just stay pinned on the front page for a while, and the newer articles would scroll below it.

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