Tue 22 May 2007
Loca is a pervasive surveillance art project that is utilizing Bluetooth to track people via their Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones. The project uses a large number of interconnected Bluetooth nodes that track people’s movements in an urban environment.
“Mobile companies have information about everywhere we go that gets generated every time we use our phone. We’re looking at how we can have access to such information, by setting up an independent network that we create within a city centre that enables us to track people without their permission or knowledge - and send them messages as well.”