{"id":3927,"date":"2011-11-29T14:53:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T14:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:07:49","slug":"malls-back-off-from-tracking-shoppers-via-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/malls-back-off-from-tracking-shoppers-via-cell-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Malls back off from Tracking Shoppers via Cell Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Phone-in-a-shopping-trolley.jpg\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2204\" title=\"Phone in a shopping trolley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Phone-in-a-shopping-trolley.jpg\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2204 lazyload\" title=\"Phone in a shopping trolley\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20180%20120%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt width=\"180\" height=\"120\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Phone-in-a-shopping-trolley.jpg\"><\/a>Two shopping malls in the United States have scrapped plans to track the movements of shoppers in its stores by their cell phone signals following the raising of privacy concerns by a US Senator over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>The Short Pump Town Center in Richmond VA and the Promenade Temecula in southern California kicked off a survey on Friday, which tracked the movements of shoppers using the signals from their new and old cell phones.  The plan was to continue with the survey through the Christmas shopping period all the way to New Year\u2019s Day, but reversed their decision following a phone call from US Senator Charles Schumer\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>Antennas had been set up in the shopping malls to anonymously track customers as they moved from store to store, with customers notified of the scheme and given the option to turn their cell phones off before entering if they did not want to be involved. The choice Schumer said was not good enough, believing that shoppers should have been given the option to take part rather than withdraw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb10\">\n<\/p><p>\u201cA shopper\u2019s personal cell phone should not be used as a third party as a tracking device by retailers who are seeking to determine holiday shopping patterns,\u201d the New York Senator noted in a statement.  \u201cPersonal cell phones are just that \u2013 personal.  If retailers want to tap your phone to see what your shopping patterns are, they can ask you for your permission to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two shopping malls in the United States have scrapped plans to track the movements of shoppers in its stores by their cell phone signals following the raising of privacy concerns by a US Senator over the weekend.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1821],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Malls back off from Tracking Shoppers via Cell Phones<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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