New 'phone boxes' spark privacy concerns
If you live in London or Leeds, you may have already spotted one on a street corner near you.At just under three metres tall, and with two large LCD advertising displays, the imposing aluminium structures are hard to miss. They're called InLinks and are billed as the payphone for the smartphone generation.Behind the shiny facade are four powerful computers, allowing the InLinks to offer calls, ultrafast WiFi and USB charging. All for free - paid for by advertising."It's intentionally not like any other phone box," explained Matt Bird, general manager of InLinkUK. "There's no box, no door - because they're no longer needed. And we've designed it to be modular, so we can keep chopping and changing the technology that's inside."Image:The 100th InLink was installed in Wandsworth, southwest Lon...