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September 11th 17, 03:46 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Graeme Wall
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Tube passengers tracked by phone WiFi
On 11/09/2017 14:53, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 13:43:05 on Mon, 11 Sep
2017,
d remarked:
It can be SMS,Â* it could even be electronic billboards or display
screens.Â* Imagine walking on to a tube platform, to be greeted by a
display with an advert from Boots - "Hey Someone Somewhere - you haven't
bought Preparation H recently.Â* If your arse grapes are still troubling
you, you'll be pleased to know that we currently have 50p off our jumbo
tube" or similar....
Of course there is always the option - possibly heresy for Millenials
- to
switch off wifi on your phone. I know, its radical, but it might just
work.
You've raised a *very* interesting point. This survey may be of only
that self-selecting subset of passengers who *do* keep their wifi on [on
the tube].
Which will be most, how many people actually bother switching it on and off?
Does the associated article mention whether they attempted to correct
for this built-in bias?
In the noise.
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