Close your eyes and imagine a police state, where you have no real control over your life. In your imagination, how many people are using a mobile phone? None? This, scarily is the world that the Met police force would like to see in place, if their latest purchase is to be believed. According to the Guardian, they have the kit in place to force phones in a 10km circle to hand over their IMEI and IMSI numbers, which can then be used to track the phone in real time.
Worse still is that the Met are refusing to reveal whether the system has been used in anger or not. How did we end up in a world where the police can track you via your mobile phone, without a warrant, along with hundreds of others, and then refuse to tell the public about it when asked? The simple reality is that the police are becoming less and less a public service and more a tool of the government, and our lives are becoming less and less our own.
Worse still is that the Met are refusing to reveal whether the system has been used in anger or not. How did we end up in a world where the police can track you via your mobile phone, without a warrant, along with hundreds of others, and then refuse to tell the public about it when asked? The simple reality is that the police are becoming less and less a public service and more a tool of the government, and our lives are becoming less and less our own.
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