Southeast Missourian

MoDOT tracking cell phone signals to monitor traffic speed, congestion

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Some cell phone users in Kansas City and St. Louis may be participating in an experiment, unbeknownst to them, every time they take to the highway. After more than a year delay, ...
Southeast Missourian

Missouri approves tracking cell phone signals for real-time traffic reports

Receive Daily Headlines FREESign up today! But monitoring phone signals along Missouri's 5,500 miles of major roads, many of which run through rural areas where cell phone coverage is spotty, makes ...
Quad-City Times

Study finds tracking cell phone signals is unreliable

Davenport police dispatchers don’t get wayward cell phone calls as often as they did, Major Don Schaeffer said. “If we get that, we ask our IT department to find out why it goes to that tower,” he ...
The Atlantic

The NSA's Ability to Track Cell Phone Locations Renders Privacy Protections 'Futile'

The Washington Post's new report detailing the NSA's collection of location information on cell phones is blunt. The NSA's ability to track location is "staggering," meaning that it is "able to render ...

Need for phone masts eliminated as signals come from space

Tech boffins have created an out-of-this-world solution to the problem of phone masts by delivering services from space.