Australian Malls To Track Shoppers By Their Phones

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Posted by samzenpus on Friday October 14, 2011 @03:11AM from the dial-S-for-shopping dept.

Fluffeh writes "Australian shopping centers will monitor customers' mobile phones to track how often they visit, which stores they like and how long they stay. One unnamed Queensland shopping center is next month due to become the first in the nation to install receivers that detect unique mobile phone radio frequency codes to pinpoint location within two meters."

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Re:Surveilance society anyone? (Score:5, Funny)

by bennomatic ( 691188 ) writes: on Friday October 14, 2011 @07:27AM (#37712202) Homepage

I will pop the battery out of my phone.
I have an iPhone, you insensitive clod!

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