Officially, he is an initiative to address the traffic problems. Named "Platform Information on the movements of citizens," a project of the Municipality of Beijing plans to monitor signals from the 17 million mobile phones in the capital to determine in real time travel in the city. The data collected will both inform citizens real-time traffic conditions, but also to optimize the network of public transport and road, "says Hall.
The signals emitted by the phones will be triangulated in real time to track the movements of their owners. But the project also constitutes a new tool to monitor people in the capital. It may particularly be used to monitor crowd movements in real time - a tool that will allow police to monitor the progress of events, to identify participants and follow the trail to the challenge.
These technologies are not new, but the generalization of the system would make them easier to use riot control. Since the beginning of the revolutions in Tech Buzz Arab News, the Chinese government is showing more and more feverish face of protests. In addition to an enhanced Internet censorship, on the terms "jasmine" and "Egypt", the authorities deployed several times a large force of police to prevent protests take place. 
The signals emitted by the phones will be triangulated in real time to track the movements of their owners. But the project also constitutes a new tool to monitor people in the capital. It may particularly be used to monitor crowd movements in real time - a tool that will allow police to monitor the progress of events, to identify participants and follow the trail to the challenge.
These technologies are not new, but the generalization of the system would make them easier to use riot control. Since the beginning of the revolutions in Tech Buzz Arab News, the Chinese government is showing more and more feverish face of protests. In addition to an enhanced Internet censorship, on the terms "jasmine" and "Egypt", the authorities deployed several times a large force of police to prevent protests take place.
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