Telltale contrails. Discuss

BOSTON, USA – When a plane crosses high up in the clear sky, it sometimes leaves behind a trail of conensed vapor, called a contrail. Some days, you can look up and see contrails crisscrossing the sky, revealing patterns for those who know how to look for them.

For a long time now, our mobile devices have been watching us and, in some ways, leaving a contrail of our paths behind us. This contrail could be broadcast by the various radios the devices carry, or by some app communicating continuously (or even intermittently) to some box out in the Cloud.

A recent article (see below) got us wondering how far we want to take this permission we give devices to leave these trails.

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Politics, policy, and personal mobile devices

UK and USA – Two items recently caught my eye. Both showed different aspects of government stepping into the phone space, either trying to increase competition, or trying to gain some control.

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Perverted video call on line one

GLOBAL – I’ve heard of dirty phone calls but sexual harassment via a video call is new one on us. Coming from the provincial island of Great Britain – where video calling is a pretty marginal activity to say the least, the thought of being greeted on your phone by some pervert striking a lewd depraved pose hadn’t even crossed our puritanical minds (or I imagine yours either).