Or industrial disease ?
Posted on 01/14/2014 7:09:37 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Fan Zhang, the owner of Happy Child, a trendy Asian restaurant in downtown Toronto, knows that 170 of his customers went clubbing in November. He knows that 250 went to the gym that month, and that 216 came in from Yorkville, an upscale neighborhood.
And he gleans this information without his customers' knowledge, or ever asking them a single question.
Mr. Zhang is a client of Turnstyle Solutions Inc., a year-old local company that has placed sensors in about 200 businesses within a 0.7 mile radius in downtown Toronto to track shoppers as they move in the city.
The sensors, each about the size of a deck of cards, follow signals emitted from Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones. That allows them to create portraits of roughly 2 million people's habits as they have gone about their daily lives, traveling from yoga studios to restaurants, to coffee shops, sports stadiums, hotels, and nightclubs.
"Instead of offering a general promotion that may or may not hit a nerve, we can promote specifically to the customer's taste," says Mr. Zhang. He recently emblazoned workout tank-tops with his restaurant's logo, based on the data about his customers' gym visits.
Turnstyle is at the forefront of a movement to track consumers who are continuously broadcasting their location from phones. Other startups, such as San Francisco-based Euclid Analytics Inc., use sensors to analyze foot-traffic patterns, largely within an individual retailer's properties to glean insight about customer behavior.
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I use a dumbphone for calls and a smartphone with no service for free wifi, taking pictures, etc. That’s as cheap as it gets, and as minimal an amount of NSA / PD spying as one can “allow”.
It shows up as a malicious URL and contains a virus although which one was not specified.
I strongly recommend its removal from this thread.
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I don't care if she knows where I am and it makes her feel better knowing she can find me. Her phone number is on my 911 gadget I have that I can activate anywhere in my house to automatically call 911. It calls 911 and then calls her.
While all that technology is available now, that is a good thing, however, Hussein's “spys” could find me, too. A pox on Hussein.
What about the black boxes in all cars?
Criminals could do the same thing.
Probably are and have.
“Criminals could do the same thing. Probably are and have.”
99.99 percent of the time, it will show the cell tower closest to my house and am pretty sure it would be the same cell tower the grocery store uses. My range of travel is one street as everything I need is on that street, except for the medical doctor. I don’t know the range of a cell tower or where it is in relation to my house and that one street.
Or industrial disease ?
Perhaps not your travels. Someone who travels out of town or a couple who work a fair distance from home.
Ample time for a B&E and time to get out.
Mine says, “You must make at least one call per month or your service will be discontinued.”
I’m interested in your setup.
What kind of smartphone works best, cheapest, higher end, does it make a difference?
Do you buy a new one, someones discard?
About a year ago, I took a phone just like that into a store to get my software upgraded.
They laughed at me.
bump
I don’t know if I care yet
my verbatim reply to such creatures would earn me an FR timeout
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
I DID change carriers... but got a smartphone anyway.
oh well, i might be doomed, but am currently hummin' right along w/ several layers of countermeasures and nary a peep from any of 'em .. cheers
here's yer pic, btw :
I don’t “live” on my phone as some folks I know do. I have a Tracphone and use mostly the texting function to stay in touch and it works for emergencies. It will take pics/videos I can send to people ... if I wanted to get on the internet I could, but it eats up my minutes, so I don’t. Since there is no personal info (name/address, etc.) necessary when you buy or use it, someone would have to figure out who you were by other means. Works for me and less than $100/year.
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