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Letter: Big Brother is sniffing your mobile device data

Published 8 November 2017

From Sam Edge, Ringwood, Hampshire, UK

You say a billboard in London's Piccadilly Circus that displays adverts on the basis of what cars are passing “will mitigate any dystopian overtones by providing free Wi-Fi, too” (21 October, p 4). That sounds suspiciously like a way to extract useful metadata from passers-by, rather than an altruistic gesture.

Issue no. 3151 published 11 November 2017

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