Not only can operators pinpoint users to within yards of their location by “triangulating” the signals from three base stations, but - according to a report in the Financial Times - the operators (under instructions from the authorities) can remotely install software onto a handset to activate the microphone even when the user is not making a call.
The primary focus of the article is the use of such technologies in the War on Islamofascism a/k/a the War on Terror, but, as so many have asked —- who watches the watchers ?
