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Tens of millions will be tracked by mobile phone within years
PROFITS from wireless snooping are expected to go through the roof in Western Europe, as personal privacy is sacrificed at the altar of the big bogus phantom named Security.
Research outfit Juniper reckons snooping revenue will reach nearly €3.3billion by 2012, as employers track people, people track their kids and their pets and official snoops track everyone with a beard.
The process will begin with companies tracking their staff, Juniper reckons. Once folk get used to that, other agencies are likely to join in and soon everyone will be keeping tabs on everyone else.
Companies will introduce the idea as a service to "vulnerable staff" and it will all seem fine and dandy in the beginning.
By 2012, Juniper Research estimates around 21 million phones and 15 million vehicles will be being tracked on a regular basis. µ
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Few years ago I worked with a company that installs JPS tracking systems in vehicles; The Oil Refinery wanted badly to monitor their drivers who were known to sleep during work hours and over speed on the roads (causing few major incidents at that time), the Royal Court were also interested, but the most surprising customer was the City who wanted to manage its state-of-the-Art fleet of Garbage Disposals!!!

I never knew before then what kind of technology they had in those ugly smelly cars.
Our lovely cable/cell phone company Rogers (in Canada) is also already looking into this.

They are building a system which tracks their customer (location, speed and direction)

This data is being used to track traffic patterns and is being sent to GPS companies who then feed this data to their GPS units in our cars so that the units can calculate a route which encounters the least amount of traffic. 

Hooray for privacy!
This is one reason I don't have a cell phone. It's weird not too many years ago no one had cell phones now everyone acts like they will die if they can't call someone from the grocery store or in their car. I agree with the post, like a bunch of lemmings they will allow monitoring of their locations by employers and the FEDS who are already doing it.
One day in the future this will not be enough for government and they will introduce a voluntary program (at first) to imbed a chip in your right hand. Idiots will line up for it because of the ease of use to buy and sell things.
Have a great day,
Glenn
Companies in Canada already do this. I've talked to both the cable company and telephone company maintenance people in Vancouver and their trucks are tracked with GPS. 

My impression was that they actually have someone sitting and monitoring them back at the office.