<story><title>London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/06/garden-bridge-mobile-phone-signals-tracking-london</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mattgibson</author><text>This article more or less describes what a police state would look like if the Church of England designed it. A controlled, plasticised, corporate Little England, where fun is monitored and must be of an approved nature, freedom of expression is allowed as long as you don&amp;#x27;t express anything disagreeable, and the public have no democratic rights at all.&lt;p&gt;Yet another small, sad indicator that control over the lives of Londoners and the spaces they live in is for sale to anyone with the money to buy it. “A private place operating as a public space” is not what I want to have on London&amp;#x27;s limited real estate.</text></comment>
<story><title>London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/06/garden-bridge-mobile-phone-signals-tracking-london</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wolfgke</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s why Richard Stallman correctly described mobile phones as tracking and surveillance devices:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stallman.org&amp;#x2F;rms-lifestyle.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stallman.org&amp;#x2F;rms-lifestyle.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Cell phones are tracking and surveillance devices. They all enable the phone system to record where the user goes, and many (perhaps all) can be remotely converted into listening devices.&amp;quot;</text></comment>