Cell Tracking on the Rise

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting that with the recent advances in cell phone tracking tech more and more companies are using it to keep track of their employee's movements. From the article: 'The gains, say the converted, are many, ranging from knowing whether workers have been "held up" in the pub rather than in a traffic jam, to being able to quickly locate staff and reroute them if necessary. Not everybody is happy about being monitored, however, and civil rights group Liberty says the growth of tracking raises data privacy concerns.'"

Comments

Not a shrinking trend

[WheelDweller]

I know most of you could give a rat's ass, but this has been planned for quite a long time. This is going to get more pervasive, not less. This is a process that started in 1948, when several changes happened: the development of the transistor, and re-establishment of Isreal being just two of'em.

"Big Brother" is coming, like it or not; it's not a hunch or an instinct, it's a scriptural fact. 2650 years ago, when a similar situation was underway with Emperor Nero, Ezikiel scrawled prophecy. (It's probably where TheAdversary got the idea)

Back then, it was thought Nero was the AntiChrist; but he had no RFIDs, no cellphones, no CCTV and no way to conduct world-wide commerce....or deny it...to people not 'flying his flag'. That's gonna happen in about 10 years or less.

It presents us with a slippery slope, where so many honest, workaday-types appreciate the benefits, and the people with the most money (places like WalMart and huge trucking firms) will save so much money they *can't* ignore it.

So nay-say all ya want, but we're on a schedule here...and there's no more changing this reality than killing Hitler when he was a corporal in WW1, to avoid WW2. Make your peace; think things through...and get used to it, 'cause it's not going back to the Bonnie & Clyde days where a duo can rob a bank on one side of town, then cross town to rob another, and be out of town before the police know about it.

"[There'll] come a day where there's no room for naughty men like us to slip about." --Malcom Reynolds, Serenity