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Re: Mobile phones used as trackers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Dec 30 15:47:11 1997
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 20:11:46 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: davidw@datamgmt.com
CC: cryptography@c2.net, perry@piermont.com
David M Walker wrote:
> Mobile phones used as trackers
> BY MICHAEL EVANS AND NIGEL HAWKES
This extra information that appeared on Reuters (according to a post to
UKCrypto by T Bruce Tober <octobersdad@reporters.net>) may be of
interest:
But it quoted Toni Stadelmann, head of Swisscom's mobile
phone division, as saying: ``We release the movement profile of
mobile telephone customers on a judge's order.''
SonntagsZeitung said there was no legal basis for storing
such information.
``I am unaware of any law that would allow the preventative
collection of data for investigative purposes,'' it quoted Odilo
Guntern, the federal ombudsman for protecting individuals'
privacy, as saying.
``Secretly collecting data is highly problematic,'' added
Alexander Tschaeppat, a judge and member of the lower house of
parliament.
Cheers,
Ben.
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