3D Spy System

LCC is helping to build a spectacular spying system able to track people and cars. Under the guise of bringing improved mobile communication services to Leicester a total of 31 mobile phone masts have already been installed in the city.

Spectacular Spying Lampposts
Included in this tally are 20 disguised as lampposts and four hidden in street signs. Others are disguised as flag poles. The council chose not to inform the public about the installation of these masts.

To Plan or Not to Plan?
In an attempt to remove themselves from responsibility LCC states that phone masts are built without planning permission because they are under 15 metres tall. Yet in the Leicester Mercury (03 October 2003) we read that Vodafone have applied for planning permission to build a 12 meter high mast in Palmerston Way, Knighton.

Spy Tech!

Another Fine Erection
Furthermore LCC's head of highway management Alan Adcock claims that if the council took them out Orange would just come right back and replace them. The council has ignored many petitions not to erect masts from neighbourhoods with health concerns.

But something even more sinister than the health risks of living near a mast lurks ominously beneath the surface.

Every Move You Make, Every...
The new spying technology involves simply attaching a receiver to existing masts. This can read the shapes made as the mobile radio waves reflect from objects. Anything moving such as cars or people can be seen in real time and tracked anywhere there is a mobile signal. Very soon you will been seen wherever you are at any time - your identity read and your conservation heard through your mobile handset.

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Guardian Mobile Mast Article

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