Cell Phones: Tracking Devices That Happen To Make Calls

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By SoulskillJul 14, 2012, 3:58 pm290 pts
An anonymous reader writes "An article in the NY Times argues that the devices we call 'cell phones' should instead be called 'trackers.' It would help remind the average user that whole industries have sprung up around the mining and selling of their personal data — not to mention the huge amount of data…

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