http://www.theregister.co.uk/000309-000006.html IBM to test people-sniffing tech in UK supermarket chain IBM is planning to unleash people-sniffing technology on supermarket shoppers, according to a report at beyond2000.com. The "Footprints" system equips the supermarket (or any other location you might fancy) with arrays of thermal sensors, which then track the movements of individual consumers throughout the store. Not a lot of people know it, but your thermal signature is aparently sufficiently individual for it to work as an identifier in this context. You can therefore be "followed" around the store, and it's manifestly clear that the store owners will be just gagging for extra information they can use to maximise the value of the data they're picking up. <SNIP> and http://www.theregister.co.uk/000309-000011.html Janet Reno would curb press freedom on line Constitutional protections of the press are getting in the way of cyber-crime prosecutions and may have to be reconsidered, a White House committee chaired by US Attorney General Janet Reno believes. "With the advent of the Internet and widespread computer use, almost any computer can be used to 'publish' material. As a result, the [Privacy Protection Act of 1980 (PPA)] may now apply to almost any search of any computer," the committee's report laments. <SNIP> -- ---------------------------- Kaos Keraunos Kybernetos -------------------- + ^ + Sunder "Only someone completely distrustful of /|\ \|/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] all government would be opposed to what /\|/\ <--*--> -------------------- we are doing with surveillance cameras" \/|\/ /|\ You're on the air. -- NYC Police Commish H. Safir. \|/ + v + Say 'Hi' to Echelon "Privacy is an 'antisocial act'" - The FedZ. ---------------------------- http://www.sunder.net ----------------------- I love the smell of Malathion in the morning, it smells like brain cancer.
