Shopping centres will monitor customers’ mobile phones to track how often they visit, which stores they like and how long they stay.
The technology, brought to Australia by a UK-based company, has prompted a call for privacy or telephone intercept regulators to investigate.
One unnamed Queensland shopping centre is next month due to become the first in the nation to fit receivers that detect unique mobile phone radio frequency codes to pinpoint location within two metres.
The company behind the Footpath system says it is also in discussions with other major Australian sites.
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So a commercial product exists that allows tapping into negotiation signals between phone and celltower…
If this isn’t declared illegal, does that mean we can record such signals for ourselves and maybe carry small negotiators that will send the same pre-recorded packets. The devices will not be powerful enough to reach a tower so will not interfere with the genuine transmitter (jamming or tapping) but will be quite capable of putting people in places they shouldn’t be.
‘Oh mr Obama, why were you in our mall massage parlour for 3 hours when your press secretary said you were on official business?’ 😀
Get these F*cks out of our phones and out of our lives. Make that stuff illegal
Leave the phone in the glove box or turn it off. Better yet, stop using one.