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Beijing To Track Citizen's Cell Phones

Posted by samzenpus on from the following-the-signal dept.

wan9xu writes "Purportedly to help alleviate Beijing's traffic congestion, the new initiative, literally translated as 'Platform for Citizen Movement Information,' proposes to track individual citizens' movement in real time via cell phone signals. Cell phones will be automatically registered at cell towers as soon as they are switched on. The rest is just like the phone tracking you see every week on CSI."

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  1. fun with tracking by Torvac · · Score: 5, Informative

    www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-vorratsdaten
    german politician got his tracking data from telekom and visualized it, just press play.