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Re:Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London by CWuestefeld on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:17PM (#10913025)
Frequently on my town's facebook page, somebody will post "speed trap near the elementary school, better slow down there", and people jump all over the poster about helping people get away with speeding.

It seems to me that if you really want people to slow down near the elementary school (as opposed to just issuing tickets and collecting fines), this is EXACTLY what you want to have happen. If you put a cop there, and people warn others of it so they all slow down... mission accomplished!

By analogy, if you've got a target very valuable to the enemy (maybe a stadium for a high-profile sporting event), having phones alert users that they're being monitored might help to ensure that nobody tries anything during the event.

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Re:Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London by stvswn on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:38PM (#10913154)
With that in mind, maybe the government should seek to warn us that we're being monitored, even if/when we aren't in reality. Just to keep us on our toes.

To be really effective, it would be seem specific and personal: text messages that say things like "We can see you. We know what you're up to." Stuff like that.

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