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COPYRIGHT 2005 Crain Communications, Inc.
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA
At least two national mobile-phone carriers are unilaterally selling huge amounts of subscriber location data to third parties for city and state traffic management. The practice has the potential to reduce traffic congestion where other intelligent-highway systems have failed, but has drawn mild criticism from privacy advocates.
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is working with Delcan-NET, headquartered in Schaumburg, Ill., which in turn is negotiating with the Missouri Department of Transportation on a $3 million contract to launch a statewide system that translates drivers' cell-phone signal movements into real-time information on vehicular speeds and traffic flow.
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