In message <[log in to unmask]>, at 17:31:07
on Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Ibrahim Hasan <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Creepy?
>
>US Malls Track Shoppers’ mobiles to Gather Marketing Data:
>
>http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/11/malls-track-phone-signals/
>
>Note the technology is from a British Company.
>
>Could be in the UK soon
The following has shown up on another of my mailing lists today:
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/04/shopping-centre-
tracking-system-condemned?newsfeed=true>
"Shopping centre tracking system condemned by civil rights campaigners
"Monitoring technology to help analyse shopping habits allows people to
be tracked using their mobile phone signal ... One of the centres that
does use the system is Princesshay in Exeter".
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Roland Perry
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