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Updated: Shops secretly track customers via mobile phone

Updated @ 2008/05/20 21:40 GMT

Spy blog reports it has received more details on the FootPath system from the manufacturer. Their update provides factual corrections to the original story. I have therefore included appropriate updates here too.

The Times reports that customers in some shopping centres are being secretly tracked without their knowledge using signals routinely broadcast [...]