Boston, MA – A new cell phone tracking study is raising questions about privacy and ethics.
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Northeastern University researchers say they secretly tracked 100,000 people outside the U.S., using cell phone towers and the peoples’ phone calls and text messages to track their movements for six months.
They found nearly three-fourths of those studied stayed mainly within a 20-mile-wide circle.
The FCC says non-consensual tracking is illegal in the U.S., but the study opens the question of human tracking for scientific purposes and growing privacy concerns.
Why on earth would we want to be listening into this chasids conversation?
Who is this man?
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anon 12:47
You make it sound like the only people talking on cell phones are chasidim.
this Guy is Einhorn he now lives in London or Israel, he grew up and used to live in Monsey NY.
got no idea why they picked him out??
the cell phone is european and the hat is viznitz
they can track the general area you are making th ecall from.
for example…at 7:00 PM you make a call from monticello, at 7:15 PM yopu make acall from middletown and at 7:25 PM you make a call from Monroe. Would this mean that if you are the driver of the vehicle you are in you can automatically be accused of speeding and proven guilty?
hmmmm, think about it.
From now on I only use payphones.
11:02pm
You are mamashe an “Ilyu” – Are you looking for a chavrusa to learn “Choshen Mishpat”?
I highly dought that this is a pic from boston mass.. no chasideshe there
They don’t need to do that for speeding tix. Many states are installing cameras on Interstates. They can record tag (license plates to you NYers) numbers, and see how long it takes you to go from camera to camera.
There is already a system in place in some locations which watches red lights and a ticket is mailed to the registered owner of the vehicle if the vehicle is seen going through a light.