Facebook patents tech that can guess where you're going next

guest · Dec 11, 2018

Facebook patents tech that can guess where you're going next
December 11, 2018
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/11/facebook-patent-location-tech/

Buzzfeed News has discovered that the social network has filed a patent application entitled "Offline Trajectories" for a technology can predict where you're going "based at least in part on previously logged location data."
Based on the application's wording, it'll be able to use your previously logged location, as well as other people's, to make predictions.

Another patent application entitled "Location Prediction Using Wireless Signals on Online Social Networks" is for a technology that can use the strength of WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular and near-field communication (NFC) signals.
If people of the same age as you typically visit a set of specific locations in your city in one outing, it can make a prediction based on that behavior.

These patents show that tech giants will continue to look for ways to gather more information about you.
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