Yes! I saw a poster advertising this i-mode citizen criminal hunting
service a few months back. I took a picture, it's included here:
Japanese Mobile Phone Culture (October 2001 - March 2002)
http://www.links.net/share/speak/sxsw/2002-keitai/
I wonder if they're getting any results this way? Aiding and abetting
citizen surveillance.
Justin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
> [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net] On Behalf Of Juergen Specht
> Sent: 14 March, 2002 19:35
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Police uses i-mode already (was: Re:
> Nokia-Germany CEO interview)
>
>
>
> > (*): Of course it makes total sense that MMS in Europe
> > should be first targeted at police force and insurance
> companies who
> > want to take pictures of accident scenes...
>
> Oh, yes. And they should share them in their subscription
> based service :)
>
> Japan is as usual much ahead of everything, my new favorite
> i-mode site is the Japanese "Most wanted" list:
http://www.npa.go.jp/wanted/kt/i/index.htm
Juergen
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Juergen Specht CTO, Nooper.com - Mobile Services Inc. Tokyo, Japan
i-mode/FOMA consulting, development, testing: http://nooper.co.jp/
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Received on Fri Mar 15 10:12:55 2002