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Big Brother tracking your travel by mobile phone
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- Eileen Brown
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- 30 Sep 2008 at 16:58
Summary
So Nokia have signed a deal to use mobile phones as oyster cards. For those of you who don’t live in London, Oyster cards are cards which are pre-loaded with money and can be used on the london transportation system so you don’t need to buy your ticket. We all carry mobile phones – so I think
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So Nokia have signed a deal to use mobile phones as oyster cards. For those of you who don’t live in London, Oyster cards are cards which are pre-loaded with money and can be used on the london transportation system so you don’t need to buy your ticket.

We all carry mobile phones – so I think that the idea of using your phone as cash is a great idea – I mean you can already pay for parking using your mobile phone – and also use it to pay for the congestion charge – so what’s the problem?
Dean thinks its a bit big brother – but I’m cool about this. In the UK we enjoy the luxury of having more webcams per capita than any other country in the world. We’re tracked wherever we go – and I feel quite safe knowing this.
So what do you think?
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