[chbot] Traffic lights and bluetooth

[Michael Field]

I worry about the opposite. Soon it might be considered 'odd behaviour' 
to go out without an electronic tag of some sort on you, enough to 
viewed as 'abnormal' behavior.  I can just hear In court "... but your 
cellphone was switched off at the time between X and Y. Is that not the 
behavior of somebody who was worried that you might able to be tracked?".

And also somewhat on topic:

http://gizmodo.com/woman-says-she-got-fired-for-deleting-a-24-7-tracking-a-1703757185

"A California woman is suing her former employer for invasion of 
privacy, labor infractions, and wrongful termination after she was 
fired, allegedly for uninstalling a GPS-enabled app called Xora that 
tracked her constantly, even on the weekends and in the middle of the night.

Myrna Arias, a sales rep for wire-transfer company Intermex, was 
expected to keep her phone on at all times to field calls from clients. 
Arias says that her boss, John Stubit, admitted that he tracked her 
off-hours, and “bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at 
specific moments.”"


On 3/09/2015 12:22 p.m., Mark Atherton wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> My concern is aggregation of tiny pieces of (apparently) useless 
> information. Add them together, and larger pictures can be revealed.
>
> As one example: start tying number plate and BT MAC address together, 
> look up number plate, and you can converge on a persons name. Fill 
> your city with bluetooth sniffers, and you can start tracking people. 
> There are lots of holes in my example, but it is an example of how 
> apparently disparate data can be aggregated.
>
> Haven't seen you at any Robotics meeting recently. Hope things are OK.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>
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