{"id":62,"date":"2005-09-06T00:10:30","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T00:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=62"},"modified":"2006-01-07T22:13:10","modified_gmt":"2006-01-08T06:13:10","slug":"just-a-few-scanning-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"Just a few scanning machines…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I seem to be on the subject of Bluetooth<\/a> again, I want to tell you about an experience I had recently that put a gnarly visceral edge on my opposition to technologies that serve as tracking beacons<\/a><\/strong> for us as private individuals.<\/p>\n

I was having lunch in San Diego with Paul Trevithick<\/a>, Stefan Brands<\/a> and Mary Rundle<\/a>. Everyone knows Paul for his work with Social Physics and the Berkman identity wiki; Stefan is a tremendously innovative privacy cryptographer; and Mary is pushing the envelope on cyber law with Berkman and Stanford.<\/p>\n

Suddenly Mary recalled the closing plenary at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy<\/a> “Panopticon Conference<\/a>” in Seattle.<\/p>\n

She referred off-handedly to “the presentation where they flashed a slide tracking your whereabouts throughout the conference using your bluetooth phone.”<\/p>\n

Essentially I was flabbergasted. I had missed the final plenary, and had no idea this had happened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Kim Cameron Mobile
<\/font>00:09:2D:02:9A:68<\/font><\/a><\/td>\n		Grand I (G1)<\/font><\/td>\nWed 09:32<\/font><\/td>\n09:32<\/font><\/td>\n????<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grand Crescent (gc)<\/font><\/td>\nWed 09:35<\/font><\/td>\n09:35<\/font><\/td>\nAdware and Privacy: Finding a Common Ground <\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grand I (G1)<\/font><\/td>\nWed 09:37<\/font><\/td>\n09:37<\/font><\/td>\n????<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grand Crescent (gc)<\/font><\/td>\nWed 09:41<\/font><\/td>\n09:42<\/font><\/td>\nAdware and Privacy: Finding a Common Ground <\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grand I (G1)<\/font><\/td>\nWed 09:46<\/font><\/td>\n09:47<\/font><\/td>\n????<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Grand Crescent (gc)<\/font><\/td>\nWed 11:25<\/font><\/td>\n11:26<\/font><\/td>\nAdware and Privacy: Finding a Common Ground <\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Grand III (g3)<\/font><\/td>\nWed 13:08<\/font><\/td>\n14:34<\/font><\/td>\n<\/font>Plenary: Government CPOs: Are they worth fighting for?<\/font> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Of course, to some extent I'm a public figure when it comes to identity matters, and tracking my participation at a privacy conference is, I suspect, fair game. Or at any rate, it's good theatre, and drives home the message of the Fourth Law, which makes the point that private individuals must not be subjected – without their knowledge or against their will – to technologies that create tracking beacons.<\/p>\n

\"ALater Mary introduced me to Paul Holman from The Shmoo Group<\/a>. He was the person who had put this presentation together, and given our mutual friends I don't doubt his motives. In fact, I look forward to meeting him in person.<\/p>\n

He told me:<\/p>\n

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“I take it you missed our quick presentation, but essentially, we just put bluetooth scanning machines in a few of the conference rooms and had them log the devices they saw. This was a pretty unsophisticated exercise, showing only devices in discoverable mode. To get them all would be a lot more work. You could do the same kind of thing just monitoring for cell phones or wifi devices or whatever. We were trying to illustrate a crude version of what will be possible with RFIDs.”<\/p>\n

The Bluetooth tracking was tied in to the conference session titles, and by clicking on a link you could see the information represented graphically – including my escape to a conference center window so I could take a phone call.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I think I have had a foretaste of how people will feel when networks of billboards and posters start tracking their locations and behaviors. They won't like it one bit. They'll push back.<\/p>\n

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[tags: Bluetooth<\/a>, Bluecasting<\/a>, Digital Identity<\/a>, Fourth Law Of Identity<\/a><\/font>]<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

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Since I seem to be on the subject of Bluetooth again, I want to tell you about an experience I had recently that put a gnarly visceral edge on my opposition to technologies that serve as tracking beacons for us as private individuals. I was having lunch in San Diego with Paul Trevithick, Stefan Brands … Continue reading Just a few scanning machines…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}