Nokia to Monitor Traffic via Your Cell Phone

Nokia is attempting to monitor traffic via the use of its cell phones and GPS systems. The project, “Mobile Century”, utilizes technology built into the phone to track a vehicle’s speed and position in order to accurately predict traffic patterns.

Nokia hopes, according to CNET, that the system can, someday, become a cheaper alternative, and more effective, way to track traffic in place of the existing – and expensive – permanent sensors transportation departments use.

Now, for many, this will be viewed as an invasion of privacy or a big brother attempt to monitor one’s daily activities and whereabouts. However, Nokia emphatically notes that the software is designed to relay the information anonymously – utilizing encryption data similar to that of bank software. Or, is that what they want you to think?

+ CNET: Nokia turns people into traffic sensors (via Jalopnik)

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