*So, maybe we should all register a complaint with the Global Bureau of Privacy Implications. It's a wonder, what those efficient agents have achieved for the privacy of China, Brazil, Russia, India and so forth.
*Daily lives of the masses getting more private all the time.
via @afromusing, so I guess I should toss in "Kenyan Privacy." Over in modern Kenya, they've got privacy in oodles.
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27784/
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"Most of us leave Wi-Fi on by default, in part because our phones chastise us when we don't. (Triangulation by Wi-Fi hotspots is important for making location services more accurate.) But you probably didn't realize that, using proprietary new "nodes" from Navizon, any device with an active Wi-Fi radio can be seen by a system like Navizon's.
"To demonstrate the technology, here's Navizon CEO and founder Cyril Houri hunting for one of his colleagues at a trade show using a kind of first person shooter-esque radar...."
(((You'd think that the privacy-shivers would have some chilling effect on the locative and tracking industry, but, uh, even entirely-dedicated surveillance hardware is selling worldwide like hot dronecakes. Just wait till the Chinese start leading this industry by underpricing those with moral qualms.)))
https://www.eff.org/document/human-rights-and-technology-sales
