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Nice. Times Online reports:

Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that [...] has already been installed in two shopping centres, including Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth [...].

There’s no reason to worry of course:

Path Intelligence, the Portsmouth-based company which developed the technology, said its equipment was just a tool for market research. “There’s absolutely no way we can link the information we gather back to the individual,” a spokeswoman said.

Nobody would ever think to link your IMEI or IMSI number to your bonus card, your gift card or even your credit card number of course. And if anybody did so, they’d probably put a notice to an easy-to-find place, like an 8pt sign at the entrance or on the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.