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Venice is Watching Tourists Every Move with Phone Tracking and CCTV Cameras, Here s Why
In the past few years, however, things have become rather less serene, thanks to the almost 30 million visitors who descend each year on the city of just 50,000 inhabitants.
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They re watching you, wherever you walk. They know exactly where you pause, when you slow down and speed up, and they count you in and out of the city.
What s more, they re tracking your phone, so they can tell exactly how many people from your country or region are in which area, at which time.
Venice is watching tourists every move
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Julia Buckley, CNN
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endIndex: The control room logs everything from water levels to the main routes people are taking around the city.
(CNN) They re watching you, wherever you walk. They know exactly where you pause, when you slow down and speed up, and they count you in and out of the city.
What s more, they re tracking your phone, so they can tell exactly how many people from your country or region are in which area, at which time.
And they re doing it in a bid to change tourism for the better.