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Bluetooth “Big Brother” tracks festival-goers
Antonia van de Velde
Reuters
Saturday, July 4, 2009
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices.
The team from the University of Ghent in Belgium believes the research could yield new satellite navigation applications for the retail and security sectors.
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“We have installed 36 Bluetooth scanners across the site and along a few surrounding roads, as well as bus stops,” the university’s Nico Van de Weghe said on Friday of the project at the Werchter festival, northeast of Brussels this weekend.
Within a radius of 30 meters, the scanners track mobile phones equipped with Bluetooth, a type of short-range wireless technology which allows different devices to connect with one another, often to transfer files.
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July 4th, 2009 at 5:00 am
I am not a piece of live-stock. I am a sovereign individual with fealty to no one. I own myself, thank you very much.
Research or not, this inevitably will be used to fuck people over with the best of intentions…
of course. Like so many other myriad things that were brought about by ‘innocent research’.
And that would be a huge list indeed.
used to be proud brit Reply:
July 4th, 2009 at 6:27 am
YES I THINK YOU ARE LIVE-STOCK
NO YOU HAVE BEEN MADE TO THINK YOUR INDIVIDUAL SO YOUR VOICE IS ONE OF MANY INDIVIDUAL`S
CHATTERING CROWD OF VOICES “CAN ANYONE HERE WHAT ANYONE IS SAYING”?
YOUR A HUMAN BEING AN ANIMAL SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE
IF WE ALL DONE THIS HOW LOUD COULD WE BE?
WOULD THE SHEEP DOG RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No to NWO Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
No.
used to be proud brit Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 2:47 am
lol ok maybe your not human then “No to NWO”
July 4th, 2009 at 9:23 am
1. Who even uses bluetooth on their phone?
2. Aren’t bluetooth phone connections only active for 5 minutes at a time (until a connection is manually accepted), anyway?
Good luck tracking ANYBODY with this one!
John Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 7:30 am
No, you have to turn it of manually.
Someone who uses hands free in their car will leave it on.
You can set it to “visible” or “detectable” to other phones, but this seldom really works.
You would be surprised how many information you can gather with bluetooth.
There are connections made up to a mile with the right equipment.
used to be proud brit Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 4:07 am
i wouldn’t be so shore m8
not much power is needed ,only a v small amount would be needed to do this
your phone has a backup battery inside ,that’s how when your battery runs out you don’t lose your numbers
and you wouldn’t need blue tooth to track you
Your phone is constantly tracked using triangulation if you have a signal ,your tracked within 1 meter of your phone
When you get a call its sent st8 to to your phone(must know were it is)
otherwise the signal would have to be broadcast to all corners of the earth for you to get a call
July 4th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Lets see, a typical day tracking poopoo would look something like this……Wake up,exercise, read my email & prison planet of course, get busy on my home computer, go to the grocery store if needed, ammo store if needed, participate in any protest that is not too far from home, speak my mind, have fun with my wife & kids, show love to my extended family, and anyone that wants to spy on that will hear me talking about their stupid asses, and the plans all of us citizens are making to take our country back. I am not afraid of any fascist government or person and will only answer to God when I die. Bluetooth tracking or not, my life will go on in defiance of the neo-nazi promulgators. I am not surprised this is happeneing in Europe(first) they outsourced their balls long ago…..pity.
Ben Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Amen brother.
used to be proud brit Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 4:18 am
i agree a bit
i don’t do nothing that’s gonna get me in trouble
however i dont want peps knowing my business
i don’t discuss my business with my neighbours ,so why should anybody have the right to know my biz i don’t want them to know.
my family fought 2 world wars for that .
I suppose if it don`t affect you you don`t care
PERHAPS ONE DAY THEY WILL WANT TO PUT A CAMERA IN YOU BEDROOM
MAYBE YOUR SAY OH WELL DON`T BOTHER ME MY MRS DON`T GIVE ME NONE ANYWAY
LOL
July 5th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Will the technology work if the user takes off the battery?
John Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 7:39 am
No, It can’t work without a battery.
You can turn Bluetooth of of in Menu/connections/bluetooth on most phones.
But someone who uses this feature is not aware he is carrying a transmitter in his pocket which can transmits private data after a while.
And your cell phone itself is a tracking device too.
Who could predict 40 years ago every one would carry a tracking device in his pocket.
Pay it’s fees, caring for it and charge it’s batteries voluntary.
used to be proud brit Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 4:38 am
I DISAGREE
ONLY TINY AMOUNT OF POWER IS NEEDED
UNLESS YOUR TRANSFERRING FILE`S
YES IT SEEMS YOU CAN SWITCH IT OFF (SEEMS)
July 5th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
And frying your brain also…
used to be proud brit Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 4:39 am
YEP
A NICE WAY TO REDUCE FERTILITY TOO
July 5th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
THE ONLY SOLUTION IS A MASSIVE WORLDWIDE REVOLUTION
used to be proud brit Reply:
July 6th, 2009 at 4:42 am
I NICE WAY TO GET LOCKED UP WITHOUT TRIAL TOO
I THINK THEY MIGHT HAVE THAT ONE COVERED ALREADY
July 5th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Suck. Werchter Rock Festival absolutely rules.
But their method is stupid. At such a festival, you may have a mobile phone, but very little chance to recharge it. If you’re staying for more than two days, you’ll probably turn it off and check messages and calls at only very specific moments of the day, and try to deactivate the stuff that consumes power uselessly.
Now, please notice that phone cabins are becoming more and more impractical. On purpose? We could say so.
I’ve seen those around the town I live in turn from coins to credit car. Shit, they could already track my call source.
Then, it turned from credit card to special telecom card, which precisely makes the use of phone cabins pointless.
Why? Because they’re often used in emergency, or when you cannot contact anyone or when you have lost your cellphone or forgot it at home or at the office.
Guess what? Next time, you won’t. You’ll make sure you have that thing in your pocket every time.
Using cellphones will become so regular in the cashless society of Nicholas Rockefeller that you won’t even bother switching it off. ID will soon be integrated into those devices.
You’ll keep it on because you won’t have any other choice but to do so. And when the technology will allow the device to be small enough to become part of your body, you’ll become a cyborg zombie. Sounds funny there, but it’s just the way it’s meant to be.
And by the way, you’ll still pay an impossibly huge fee to be allowed to talk for a few hours. Yes, we’re all raped by mobile telecom companies, all around the world, and that regardless of the FACT that the infrastructure of cellphones is far less expensive to build and maintain than that of the traditional wire phone.
July 5th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Blue tooth? forget that. How about pointy fangs? And savage ripping claws? Yes it’s true, Alex Jones is a shapeshifter chupacabra. See an actual photo of Alex going through his metamorphasis, shapeshifting into the dreaded chupacabra. This will be on CNN in a matter of hours! http://www.patriotscave.blogspot.com
July 6th, 2009 at 5:36 am
Great for corporations to track their employees…