Your mobile phone: the spy who you loved

I found this link on Slashdot. The article on CNet is quite scary.
Quote:

[...] private companies now sell off-the-shelf data-mining solutions to government spies interested in analyzing mobile-phone calling records and real-time location information. These companies include ThorpeGlen, VASTech, Kommlabs, and Aqsacom--all of which sell "passive probing" data-mining services to governments around the world.

According to the screenshot on the web page, you can with this software obtain the following information about any user:

• physical location, tracking a person's move
  
• email addresses he uses
• call fingerprinting: you can follow the user even if he uses multiple SIMs and handsets

Read more if you want to have a look at the potential abuses that these technologies raises.

UK ISPs To Hand Over Thousands of File Sharers' Data

Slashdot reports:
"US game developer Topware Interactive, the people behind the now infamous Dream Pinball affair, are about to turn up the heat. Operating through London lawyers Davenport Lyons, they have managed to convince the High Court to send out an order demanding that ISPs in the UK start to hand over the details of several thousand alleged pirates... BT, one of the UK's largest ISPs..., confirmed it had been ordered to hand over details of alleged copyright infringing file-sharers... Virgin Media was a little more slippery in its response but reading between the lines it seems obvious they are involved too."