The article ,"Mobiles a 'threat' to privacy" (Dowling J, & Austin P, 2010) which talked about surveillance of people, reminded me about the French company's surveillance of my brother, who drives their truck. As he was passing the wheat town of Yaninee, the computer on board the truck notified the head office that he was speeding. It had mistaken the highway on which the truck was travelling to be a service road which ran alongside -this had a speeed limit. The computer has "dobbed" him in last week because it thought he had taken too long (three hours)to do a local job. The job was not local but eighty kilometres away.
Dowling J & Austin P 2010 Mobiles a 'threat' to privacy theage.com.au accessed 22 August 2010.
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/mobiles-a-threat-to-privacy-2
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