Britain’s largest police force has been using covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network to intercept communications and unique IDs from phones or even transmit a signal to shut off phones remotely, according to the Guardian. www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/datong-surveillance/
Tag Archives: mobile
Navigating Dissent
I’ve drafted a design for a mobile application to help protesters map barriers, gatherings, and other facets of a dynamic protest. This information can be gathered to provide the community with a real-time birds-eye view of the activity, helping them avoid arrest, stay safe, and create the most impact. As [...]
7scenes & Aris
www.7scenes.com We are a mobile storytelling platform. We help you link your media to places, so you can create city experiences for anyone with a mobile phone. Guide, tour, game? That’s up to you… Aris Games ARIS is a user-friendly, open-source platform for creating and playing mobile games, tours and [...]
Sukey beat me to it
I had an idea: Fancy-phone app for protesters. It’s a map with 2 views: Submit & Browse. In submit, you have a small set of icons you can drag and drop on the map, including barricade, broken barricade, arrest, speech, meeting etc. In Browse, you see an aggregate of everything [...]