Privacy experts are warning commuters to disable the Wi-Fi on their phones while using the London Underground today. This morning the Tube network introduced monitoring of signals to harvest date from commuters in the capital. Transport for London says it is collecting details of where, when and how customers use the service. Privacy experts are warning commuters that they should switch off their Wi-Fi in order to evade detectionIt also confirmed that the information gathered may be shared with the police and other third parties. We take our customers' privacy extremely seriously and will not identify individuals from the Wi-Fi data collected.

Source: Daily Mail July 08, 2019 08:03 UTC