spying (Page 12)

Ever get the suspicion that someone is spying on you? There have been hints that we may soon be sold clothes and personal items containing tiny GPS units that track our movements. In Brazil, boxes of laundry detergent did this!

In Brazil, the Unilever company embedded GPS trackers in some boxes of Omo laundry detergent, as an incentive to et consumers to buy more of it. These were special “prize winning” boxes that enabled Unilever agents to find their way to a consumer’s front door and give him (or her) a prize.
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The ideal spy would wear invisible clothes that automatically took photographs of his surroundings and he would be able to read whatever you typed on your Blackberry. This almost happened in Dubai, and across the border in Canada. Let’s hope this doesn’t happen here!

BBC News reports that an update being promoted for Blackberry users in the United Arab Emirates turned out to actually be spyware that would allow covert agencies there access to private information and emails. Blackberry users became suspicious when the update, which promised improved performance, led to drastically reduced battery life.
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