Brinworld: cellphone as cuecat [privacy, orwell]
A benign use of G3 cell-cams: as UPC scanners + Priceline. A bit of a privacy concern unless you use prepaid phones. How many years until folks can snap pictures of kids, or arabs, and send them to some Kidnap / FatherlandSecurity site for review? The location of the cellphone camera, of course, will be automatically sent. ........ New camera phone software is mobile shopping guide Comparison shopping online has become a consumer pastime. And people love taking pictures with camera phones. Charles Fritz wants to combine the activities. His idea: Let people use their camera phones to scan bar codes and immediately get price or other product information wherever they are. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/03/01/Technology/New_camera_phone_soft.shtml
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Major Variola (ret.)