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on Thursday May 22, @05:11PM
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This story has been discussed earlier this week (that's why it is not fully shown on our main page), however, the summary below provides a additional link regarding the privacy concerns.
om_henners writes "The Register reports that shopping centres in the UK are now monitoring the movements of shoppers by tracking communication between mobile phones and base stations. Path Intelligence (the developers of this technology) claims users are very difficult to identify, and impossible to track for extended periods of time. However it does raise a number of privacy concerns.
This technology does have interesting applications in market research (how far will you walk for fish and chips?) and as time passes is likely to become more and more prevalent as both commercial and security entities realise the applications."
om_henners writes "The Register reports that shopping centres in the UK are now monitoring the movements of shoppers by tracking communication between mobile phones and base stations. Path Intelligence (the developers of this technology) claims users are very difficult to identify, and impossible to track for extended periods of time. However it does raise a number of privacy concerns.
This technology does have interesting applications in market research (how far will you walk for fish and chips?) and as time passes is likely to become more and more prevalent as both commercial and security entities realise the applications."
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