Pay-For-Visit Advertising

theodp writes "US patent office documents released Thursday show that a startup named Pelago is seeking a patent covering Pay-For-Visit Advertising, which uses GPS, Bluetooth, or RFID on your mobile devices to track your travels to see if you wander into a place of business that appeared in an ad shown earlier on your cellphone, PDA, or laptop. To maximize ad revenue, phone calls are also tracked to see if you dial a number associated with an ad, and financial transactions are examined to see if you make a purchase from an advertiser. The application goes on to note that the system may be of interest to government agencies. Pelago just raised $7.4M from the likes of KPCB and Jeff Bezos."

Comments

Can't I just have the chip implanted already?

[PoliTech]

I really dont want to carry all those gadgets around, especially at the beach. So if you could just inject that RFID tag into my neck right here...

Now I will generate revenue for somebody

[crovira]

without my knowledge of who, what or where, just by going to work everyday.

1. Set up a surveillance society,
2. Watch everybody all the time,
3. ???
4. Profit

Steps 1 & 2 are already happening whether we want them to or not. Its a done deal.

But the greedy little prick wants to patent it too.

God I wish I had balls that big.

I have two simple, effective words for Pelago...

[fallen1]

Fuck. You.