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New York cancels phone booth transmitter program
« on: October 07, 2014, 0349 UTC »

New York cancels phone booth transmitter program

Published Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 | 4:31 p.m.

Updated 4 hours, 16 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is scuttling a project that would have installed in payphone booths thousands of transmitters that could track people's movements.

A private company named Titan had received city approval to install the beacons, which emit signals that are picked up by smartphones. It has put in 500 of them.

The beacons could be used to send advertising onto people's cellphones. And they could be used to track the movements of the cellphones' owners.

The project was reported Monday morning in a joint piece published by BuzzFeed and the Daily News. Hours later, the city announced it had asked Titan to remove the beacons.

Titan says the beacons weren't intended to track people but it will honor the city's request to remove them.
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Re: New York cancels phone booth transmitter program
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2014, 1159 UTC »
Big Brother is Watching You
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Re: New York cancels phone booth transmitter program
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2014, 1328 UTC »
Agreed
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Re: New York cancels phone booth transmitter program
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2014, 0016 UTC »
« Last Edit: October 09, 2014, 0515 UTC by BDM »
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Re: New York cancels phone booth transmitter program
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2014, 1412 UTC »
How do they compare with Devil's phone booth, Al?
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