[Gondring]

article>>The program charts drivers' relative speed by measuring the time between the intermittent signals cell phones send to towers along a stretch of road. Then, that information - stripped of the personal identification and serial numbers that identify the cell phone's owner - is overlaid with highway maps to determine where the phones are and how fast they are moving.

Keith in Iowa>They're not. And the technology in the original article in the post won't either

Please explain...are you saying that the cell phone company is going to do the calculations and not pass on any raw info?

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Please explain...are you saying that the cell phone company is going to do the calculations and not pass on any raw info?<<<

No.

The only "raw info" passed from your cell phone aside from actual conversations is an electronic serial number - which by itself is worthless to identify you. The traffic sensing systems will 'eavesdrop' on the control channel information being transmitted by cell phones - and count unique individuals over a certain period of time to determine traffic flow. Thats it. They won't have the capability of interfacing with the cell company's database and connect the electronic serial numbers to people. As I said earlier in this discussion - the process of you receiving and sending e-mail on your computer yields more minable data that could be used against you than your cell phone's electronic serial number.