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The privacy concern should be on the part of the cell phone holder. Blaming the mall for using data that you are transmitting is like firing someone for findin
by recursive 15y ago
The privacy concern should be on the part of the cell phone holder. Blaming the mall for using data that you are transmitting is like firing someone for finding a security hole in the corporate web site. If you don't want anyone to know your top secret phone id, stop transmitting it. You should be much more worried about the people who aren't telling you that they are collecting it than the mall that's announcing the fact that it is.
- trotsky 15y agoAnd if you don't want your private conversations recorded simply refrain from speaking? There is a long history of privacy protections afforded to the general public.
- recursive 15y agoWhat do you mean by private conversations? If you're trying to transmit sensitive information, you don't use a postcard. People are jumping on the wrong bad guy here. "If we can just stop the people who are admitting to tracking us in ways we don't like, we can drive back this menace." The reality is that if you don't like the idea of people doing this kind of tracking, stopping the people that are publicly admitting to doing it is the least of your concerns.
- noblethrasher 15y agoMore like you should refrain from speaking in an environment with with security cameras and microphones... such as a mall. I don't like this either but I don't see why the mall shouldn't be able to monitor a signal. For instance, I don't see why they should not be able to record and store video received from an array surveillance cameras (even though I don't like it).