[chbot] Traffic lights and bluetooth

[Mark Atherton]

Interesting viewpoint.

I would only think that it would be lawful to track someone as part of 
an employment contract during working hours.

http://www.xora.com/ have some interesting/spooky products

personal microchips next, with chip readers on every street corner ?


On 3/09/2015 2:47 p.m., Michael Field wrote:
> 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