Wi-Fi dustbin: A new way to secretly monitor smartphones

In an amazing testament of the depth control of our society, a new line of 'spyware' garbage cans have been attributed to the international Agenda monitoring program to gather all your personal data, in each of our step.In the past we have seen how politicians reveal that various electronics such as our television and computer, you can spy at any time using a special built-in hardware, but now even the most basic things have turned into a tool for control of the state. In fact, they do not have to be electronic devices in the first place.

And as is the case with the new 'spy' trash cans, carried out recently on the streets of London and it is in beta (test version before the introduction of the full work).Using the infrastructure of Wi-Fi technology is now technologically equipped trash cans, new 'renewed capsule' spy garbage cans will be placed through the financial district of London. Garbage cans will actually go a step forward and use their own Internet connectivity and to collect information from your smartphone, without your permission (or any form of warning).

While real data that "spy bucket" collected can be fully retained thanks to the different relationships with the spy agencies like GCHQ and the NSA, the company "Renew" behind spyware bucket says "Restored capsules" monitor and collect information medley.

It includes information that is actually required by law, including personal data that require permission to collect. Specifically, this includes your phone's unique Media Access Control (MAC) address of the smart bins collected even without any notice. But this gathering together with other characteristics that are used to sell to advertisers to make a better 'target' advertising in the area.Since the company Renew followed more than 4 million units during one week in June, using only 12 spyware trash can (only 10 percent of the company's stocks bucket), this kind of monitoring could be quite pervasive if they get the green light.

CEO of Renew, Kaveh Memari told the BBC that their machines removed only "extremely limited, encrypted, common and anonymous data" to track local traffic, in a similar way to that website following digital traffic.From unique identification address, manufacturer, model, and even the speed and spy garbage cans will know more about your phone than you - all without question. Something that is unique against the law, is actually legalize the event when Google faced with legal issues when the application is published Street View due to the fact that he shared personal information of random citizens. According to a report from tech of the website GigaOM:

"If you are wondering how all this is legal, then you are not alone. It turns out that the record is accurate location, as well as the Media Access Control (MAC) address of your phone represents legalization of collecting personal data. In the UK, this means that it must ask permission - or garbage can not ask permission "In other words, the company behind the spy "Restored capsules' simply does not care. And soon they could see these spy buckets and the United States (New York City namely, that the company is trying to target business people in large groups) in the near future.It is now really comes down to whether our society is under control or not, so far more rooted in the psyche of people who are even willing to let them trash spying.

• 1 Apr, 2016
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