Doom, gloom and Armageddon are not topics exclusive to street corner demagogues and David Ike. They are also increasingly becoming the preserve of tech companies and researchers looking to utilize mobile phones as civilian-based surveillance tools.
One of the most recent is Purdue University who are developing radiation sensors designed to fit inside mobile phones. The small cheap sensors will be built into mobile devices with the idea that if enough of them detect radiation around the same area, they might help to pre-empt a terrorist attack.
Sounds a little Orwellian and fraught with complications if you ask us; how would such a system be policed and what about all of the false positives that would inevitably ensue? Still, if some people would feel safer with this tech in their phone then presumably they will soon have the choice.
(Via InfoWorld)
