Sunday August 24, 2104 episode of Unforgettable, CBS, included the police IT guy reporting exact location of a suspect, using his desk top responding to a query from the detectives.
Same episode included a pharmaceutical company which used unsuspecting young people as human subjects without their knowledge or consent. They were deliberately infected with a virus in order to test an experimental vaccine.They were considered expendable by the company executive. Not an unusual event in the history of science. Edward Jenner who discovered cure for smallpox allegedly did the same? The argument of the Nazi doctors was that the benefit to mankind outweighed the harm to the individuals used for medical research. Contemporary American doctors use the same arguments for their experiments without consent.
[From article]
Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they are blocks away or on another continent.
The technology works by exploiting an essential fact of all cellular networks: They must keep detailed, up-to-the-minute records on the locations of their customers to deliver calls and other services to them. Surveillance systems are secretly collecting these records to map people’s travels over days, weeks or longer, according to company marketing documents and experts in surveillance technology.
Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they are blocks away or on another continent.
The technology works by exploiting an essential fact of all cellular networks: They must keep detailed, up-to-the-minute records on the locations of their customers to deliver calls and other services to them. Surveillance systems are secretly collecting these records to map people’s travels over days, weeks or longer, according to company marketing documents and experts in surveillance technology.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/for-sale-systems-that-can-secretly-track-where-cellphone-users-go-around-the-globe/2014/08/24/f0700e8a-f003-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html
For sale: Systems that can secretly track where cellphone users go around the globe
By Craig Timberg
For sale: Systems that can secretly track where cellphone users go around the globe
By Craig Timberg
August 24, 2014
Washington Post
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