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6-MIN READ 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. FOLLOW US ON: 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 By Julia Buckley, CNN enablePagination: false 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. ....
It was an event that was never meant to happen again. Tested for the first time in adverse conditions, their successful deployment kept the historic centre dry for the first time in the city s history. It meant that the devastating floods of 2019 which caused more than $1 billion worth of damage to the city should be a thing of the past. Venice was flooded on December 8 after the MOSE flood barriers were not activated.(ANDREA PATTARO/AFP via Getty Images) In the two months since its introduction, at the start of what would traditionally be the flooding season, the barrier system, known as MOSE, has been successfully activated five times including for a three-day period last week. ....