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Stephen Downes

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Not e-learning directly, but this story about a shopping cart that spies on you points to the sort of world we're creating. "The patent, submitted in February, would see trolleys fitted with sensors which in turn send data over the internet to Walmart's servers." Walmart says it wouldn't collect any personally identifiable information, but why would we believe that?

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