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Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphone tracking data
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:11:25 -0500
Hi, The Baltimore Sun and New York Times recently ran articles about the State of Maryland getting ready to roll out a traffic flow monitoring system which works by tracking the position of cellphones which are being carried in cars. The Baltimore Sun article is still online at this URL: Cell phone data tracing traffic in Md. System 'watches' vehicles, raises fears about privacy http://tinyurl.com/7we6q Virginia and Missouri are also about ready to test similar systems. I want to see a requirement put into place that wireless companies must get a customer's written consent before any of their cellphone position data is turned over to a third-party for any uses not related to making cellphone calls. I recent contacted the Maryland Highway Department and requested a copy of the contract for the system. The contract is now online as a Word document file on my Web site: http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/mdotcontract.doc I haven't had time to review the contract yet, but I did see that the funds for this Maryland project are coming from the Federal Highway Administration (http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/). Perhaps the FHWA are the folks who should be requiring consumers to provide consent to have their cellphone position data sold to other companies. Richard M. Smith http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphone tracking data Richard M. Smith (Nov 29)
- Re: Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphone tracking data Anthony Rodgers (Nov 29)
- RE: Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphone trackingdata Richard M. Smith (Nov 29)
- Re: Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphone trackingdata Paul Vixie (Nov 29)
- Re: Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphone trackingdata Anthony Rodgers (Nov 29)
- Re: Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphone trackingdata Dude VanWinkle (Nov 29)
- RE: Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphonetrackingdata Larry Seltzer (Nov 29)
- Re: Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphonetrackingdata Paul Vixie (Nov 29)
- Re: Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphonetrackingdata Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 29)
- RE: Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphone trackingdata Richard M. Smith (Nov 29)
- Re: Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphone tracking data Anthony Rodgers (Nov 29)
- Re: Getting consumers' consent to sell cellphone tracking data Anthony Rodgers (Nov 29)