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• A great anti-theft aid, but any other connotation for this 'service' somewhat disturbs me.
  
  Facebook is getting something like this isn't it? I don't know for sure since I'm not on Facebook.
  
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  I know, take a picture, I'm a freaking rarity. :o) Posted by L.Rawlins, UK
• mapamobile (think they're bust now) was doing this like 5 years ago - so it's nothing new really Posted by scott, UK
• This is about Incrementaly putting in a control grid. Initially it will be opt-in then over time it will become the defacto standard that will be turned on by default so that all will be tracked and traced. This is just the start, once they have this sort of technology in place and people have accepted it then it well be time to roll out the implantable RFDI chips. And then they will have complete control. Posted by John, Scotland
• I agree with John. It's all about familiarisation. Today's youth are being adjusted to care less and less about privacy (through services such as this "Sniffer"), which is one of their basic civil rights which they should value. By the time the ID cards go into action, they will already be used to being spied on which will lead to less resistance against the government, allowing them to record everything about us, our biologicial details, shopping habbits, relationships, past addresses, places visited - essentially our life history.
  They also plan to pass a law to log everyone's text messages and e-mail messages, and link them to the relevant identity.
  
  The "terrorism" excuse for all of these surveillance strategies is BS. Terroristm costs a few lifes, more people die in car accidents on poorly maintained roads. It's all about control and order.. control and order. Posted by Paul Finnigan, United Kingdom
• This really is very very un-new!!!! Worldtracker has been running a service like this for years. Also at one point Carphone Warehouse offered a similar service for parents to track their children, sold as an added safety feature of buying them a mobile, this service stopped or was suspended when someone realised that anyone could go in and register the child's phone number and track them(as long as they knew their name). I don't know of Carphone Warehouse ever resurrected the feature with proper id required from parents. Posted by Fra, N. Ireland