RE: UKNM: wap killer app??

[Irakli West]

Some comments:


1) Services are opt-in (or at least should be)

2) Monthly-bill-phones can be traced from cell to cell: wap does not change

anything. With UMTS, some inner-city cells will only cover one block, or

around 100 metres in diameter

3) Already now, services such as Onstar (General Motors/ US) or ADAC Oztrak

(D) can pinpoint the location of your vehicle with the help of GPS (much

more exact than Time-of-arrival or any other method). These services are

there to help you in case of emergency.

4) Much more can be said of my behaviour and to a certain degree about my

location through the use of credit and other cards

5) In the end, it's a perception 'thing': I don't mind being 'located' if it

means I get genuinely attractive offers. After all, I am not a criminal!


Happy to debate further



Irakli West

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> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Fiona Campbell-Howes [quinquiremehotmail [dot] com (mailto:quinquiremehotmail [dot] com)]

> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:29 AM

>

To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: UKNM: wap killer app??

>

>

> Today's Telegraph Connected leader says that BT Cellnet has

> launched FindMe, which allegedly points a mobile phone user

> to the nearest McDonalds/Lloyds cashpoint etc.  So far so

> location-specific-m-commerce-hype-bollocks.

>

> But if FindMe can identify a user's location to 100 metres,

> how long before Jack Straw and his cronies cotton on to the

> fact that pretty soon most of the UK population will

> willingly be carrying around an electronic identity tag? Sinister...



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