Big Brother is watching in a new way
 

Anonymous Wireless Address Matching (AWAM) takes the individual MAC address on Bluetooth-enabled systems such as phones, hands-free devices, computers, and even Sony PSP Go gaming devices and tracks them as they enter a roadway equipped with a sensor.

If you've got your iPhone in your pocket and you drive along Interstate 45 leaving downtown Houston the system records a version of your MAC address.

How wireless devices are fighting traffic - Technology & science - Wireless - msnbc.com

Seems to me that Houston has bigger problems than traffic.
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I'm fairly sure that google creates the same road-flow data using cell phones running google maps (and GPS).

They are using automated license plate readers here to supposedly search for warrants etc. Didn't even know they had such a thing until there was a bad accident following a police pursuit of stolen car that pinged their radar.

David next time you are on Baseline@Monte Vista/Padua you can see the cameras on the arm for the traffic signal, they are also on Foothill east of Claremont Blvd. I haven't noticed them on the west side or the south side but they are probably on the drawing board. They are not the only ones. Upland had a police car equipped with cameras that would drive around but I haven't seen it in a while. The sheriff dept has cars equipped also, they have volunteers drive them around.

I don't have anything to hide so it doesn't really bother me. I don't think it is any different than having a police officer sitting in his car watching the cars go by and running the license plates.
It is a whole lot cheaper, especially with the perc's and pensions they give govt workers in Ca.

It's okay, it's not like government has anything better to be focusing on. That whole debt spending thing? Bah - it's more important to track cell phones.

It is only a matter of time before you get a ticket in the mail, just like they do here on the east coast on the turnpikes. If you make it from point a to point b too fast, yup ticket. (or at least they used to do that)




When you cross another sensor it records you again, recognizing you as the same vehicle. It then takes your speed between the two points and averages it with everyone else passing through the same two points.

They do the same thing in Illinois at the toll booths, If your using the I-Pass and make it between to booths to fast and you get a ticket in the mail.

Hey, you may not like all of this big-brother tech aimed at finding something wrong with what you're doing, but at least your tax dollars are at work.


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