China has experienced an intense smartphone boom. It created a hefty enough paradigm shift in phone use, that phone booths have been converted into WiFi hotspots to increase coverage.
Now the Chinese Government is looking into monitoring the movement of China’s 17 million cell phone users.
Purportedly to improve Beijing’s public travel and reduce traffic congestion, the new initiative, literally translated as “Platform for Citizen Movement Information” proposes to track each individual citizen’s movement in real time via cell phone signals, as reported on the Beijing Municipal People’s Government website.
Hmmmm ….
How Orwellian.
[via TNW]
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