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Title: New York cancels phone booth transmitter program
Post by: Fansome 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.

Title: Re: New York cancels phone booth transmitter program
Post by: ByteBORG on October 07, 2014, 1159 UTC

Big Brother is Watching You

Title: Re: New York cancels phone booth transmitter program
Post by: atrainradio on October 07, 2014, 1328 UTC

Agreed

Title: Re: New York cancels phone booth transmitter program
Post by: BDM on October 09, 2014, 0016 UTC

(http://www.dvice.com/sites/dvice/files/images/assets_c/2012/06/Big-Brother-is-still-watching-thumb-330x178-94784.jpg)

Title: Re: New York cancels phone booth transmitter program
Post by: Pigmeat on October 12, 2014, 1412 UTC

How do they compare with Devil's phone booth, Al?