Visitors to the garden bridge in London will be tracked by their mobile phone signals and supervised by staff with powers to take people’s names and addresses and confiscate and destroy banned items, including kites and musical instruments, according to a planning document.
The lengthy document submitted as part of the planning process for the controversial bridge, which will be part-financed by at least £10m of public money, said the trust hoped to “maximise the opportunity provided by the status of the bridge as private land” by imposing rules to “establish expectations for behaviour and conduct”.
If it goes ahead, people’s progress across the structure would be tracked by monitors detecting the Wi-Fi signals from their phones, which show up the device’s Mac address, or unique identifying code, according to the planning document. The trust behind the bridge concept says it will not store any of this data and is only tracking phones to count numbers and prevent overcrowding.
The Guardian: London garden bridge users to have mobile phone signals tracked
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