I know where you were last month
By Kristoffer Bohmann, Bohmann Usability
I know where you were last month. New Danish legislation allow police to register any mobile phone user if the person was close to a crime scene. Consequently, thousands of innocent users will be registered by the police. Since traffic on the GSM net (global system for mobile communications) is stored for several years, police may even map the physical movements of users for several months.
This attack on individual rights is important because it is one of the first initiatives enabling mass-surveillance of innocent citizens. It is highly likely that police will misuse such information for unauthorized purposes. The unavoidable result is more surveillance and less moral law.
Kristoffer Bohmann
