Titan, a company that controls the ad space on 5,000 phone booths around New York City, quietly installed bluetooth beacons capable of automatically tracking and serving ads to nearby smartphones on hundreds of its Manhattan booths, BuzzFeed reported early this morning. Now, in the wake of BuzzFeed's report, City Hall has asked that the devices be removed.

[Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] March 5 @ 4:30pm YELLING into his Bluetooth while walking to the Trump Hotel on CPW.

The UK is now allowing advertisers to barrage Bluetooth-equipped devices with spam. Regulators' rationale? Bluetooth, a short-range wireless technology, is not a "public electronic communications network," so the law imposes no requirement to get users to consent to ads. There's now one more reason to disable your cell's Bluetooth. [Out-Law.com]