p2pnet news view Freedom | Mobiles:- Be warned, if you’re a Bluetooth using file-sharer who’ll be at the Werchter festival, northeast of Brussels, this coming weekend.

Because Big Brother Bluetooth may be watching you.

“Researchers are using Bluetooth technology to observe the meanderings of tens of thousands of festival-goers at a top European rock festival, hoping their findings will launch a new generation of tracking devices,” says Reuters.

A University of Ghent in Belgium teams reckons their work might end in new satellite navigation applications for the retail and security sectors.

“We have installed 36 Bluetooth scanners across the site and along a few surrounding roads, as well as bus stops,” the story has Nico Van de Weghe saying.

Bluetooth is an open wireless protocol for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs), explains the Wikipedia.

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Reuters – Bluetooth “Big Brother” tracks festival-goers, July 3, 2009

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