The Times reports that technology is available which lets mobile phone operators monitor our calls and texts, and pass the information gleaned to advertisers.
This is apparently being trailed as a benefit to those being monitored. The idea seems to be that your service provider can, say, lift from your shoulders the burden of looking for food when you're hungry. If you are rash enough to let slip something like "meetng wnt Ok, but ovrran - starvng", your service provider can have some interested third party beam you an ad suggesting you "eat at Joe's - just 100 yards NNE from your present location".
We are to take comfort from the likelihood that any such facility will be an "opt-in".
Having described this eavesdropping and tele-spamming facility in terms of a service, a spokesman for Motorola offers a masterpiece of understatement - worth a read.
The Information Commissioner is said to have "concerns". No - really ?
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