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Shopping Center Tracking System Condemned by Civil Rights Campaigners
hypnosec writes "Civil rights campaigners have spoken out against a technology used by several shopping centers in the UK to track consumers using their mobile signals. The shopping centers claim that the technology helps them provide better services to consumers and retailers without compromising privacy. The system, called the Footpath, allows them to know how people are spending time in a shopping center, which spots they visit the most and even the route they take while walking around. Several consumer and civil rights groups, including Big Brother Watch, say consumers must be given a choice on whether they want their movement tracked or not." We covered a similar tracking system here in the U.S. last month.
There is nothing stopping an individual following you around in public taking note of your locations.
That's not what the judge told me.
In Soviet Britain, Centres Shop You!
Couldn't resist ;-)
Tape 'em to hamsters (be nice and use medical tape), and let the hamsters go.
Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit, telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act"
Way ahead of you. I go in and buy doggy treats and condoms. Datamine THIS!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.