| Mr Khan said: I don't see the issue with this, per se. To know that a unique person, identifiable only by their phone's MAC address, is going somewhere, is not really infringing on anyone's privacy, not at least until you attach a name and personal information to that. If they kept it on its own, and used it, as Nikkom said, just to provide location-based advertising, there'd be no issue. |
Well unless you combine that information with boots on the ground.
For example... I'm a private investigator. I pay this company to get the data real time.
I'm following a husband who his wife thinks is cheating on her.
I go into the starbucks he always gets his morning cofee at. Follow him about half a block... and bam. I know EXACTLY which adress is his, with the slighest bit of leg work... and now i can follow him everywhere he goes without having to follow him.
Oh, and don't even get me started with the really creepy guys who think they're in a relationship with someone they've only talked to like twice.
Now replace private investigator with poltiican... or hell, with police officer. Track the cops on my block and suddenly i know when and where to make my deals without any issues.
