Look into my eyes, I don't want to be tracked.....
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The BBC reported this morning (18th July 2011) on CatNav and CatCam (using tech to track your cat)
The reporter Richard Westcote chatted to Roger Tabor a Pet Behaviour Expert. [need to ignore Roger used to present for the BBC and that his report is paid for by Bayer – who sell cat worming – which Roger managed to slip in several times, but the BBC forgot to say this was a paid ad] However, there is a report here “the secret lives of cats” if you want to know what your cat gets up to, but that is not the point.
Mary Whitehouse (if you don’t know who she is – you really should) would have taken this up and said (me creating the words now) “It is only a short step from tracking you pet to tracking you. Once you believe it is safe and acceptable to do so, it will become easy for you to be hoodwinked into being tracked yourself.”
It is all about small steps of education or erosion. Is there any value in your Digital Footprint?