Baltimore to Test Cell Phone Traffic Monitoring .

Baltimore to Test Cell Phone Traffic Monitoring. Momoru writes “The Baltimore Sun is reporting that a Canadian company, Delcan NET, will begin testing a technology that determines the flow of automobile traffic by monitoring cell phone traffic. The company promises a revolutionary way to determine backups, but privacy advocates fear the implications of a third party tracking users by their cell phones.” [Slashdot]

The history of governments putting up spy cameras at major intersections and freeway overpasses suggests that the privacy advocates are right to be concerned–and that it won’t matter, because very few people in America actually value their privacy.