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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 --- 36 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EyebeamReblog/~3/343587381/
 Recent advancements in the field of urban computing and visualization of electronic traces left by people in the physical space are more and more raising privacy issues. After a time where they’ve been carried out by public bodies, artists and research labs, some private initiatives and private research projects are now taking the lead, which raise the concerns even more than in the recent past. The Guardian tackles that issue in an article about Bluetooth watching yesterday. The Cityware project in Bath is indeed looking at how people move around in cities by using scanning devices in certain locations unknown to the public. Bluetooth signals coming from devices such as mobile phones, laptops and digital cameras are captured and help to pinpoint people’s whereabouts in a now classic way. The main problem of course is that urban dwellers are then tracked without their consent, which leads privacy activists to qualify this kind of project as “yet another example of moronic use of technology”. (Space syntax analysis from the Cityware project showing people using mobile phones (red) and cameras (blue) in an urban location (Bath Abbey)) So what are the elements at stake? Some excerpts from the article: “ The Bath University researchers behind the project claim their scanners do not have access to the identity of the people tracked. Eamonn O’Neill, Cityware’s director, said: “The objective is not to track individuals, whether by Bluetooth o ... |
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