I tried to understand location tracking. It’s nearly impossible

ronjor · Mar 20, 2019

By Katharine Schwab 03.20.19

Earlier this month, Foursquare launched a special feature for users in Austin, Texas, called Hypertrending. The idea was to show off the company’s location tracking technology to attendees of the South by Southwest conference by creating a heat map of the city. The Hypertrending map ranked all of the public places in Austin based on how many people were in each location; during the conference, the Austin Convention Center was ranked first, with the local airport and the University of Texas second and third. You could also look at the most crowded restaurants, events, and nightlife–ostensibly to understand which places were happening and which weren’t.
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mirimir · Mar 20, 2019

For instance, if you download the app of a pizza brand that pays Foursquare to use Pilgrim in its own pizza-ordering app, and you’ve set your phone’s location tracking to “always on,” that pizza app might send you a notification with a coupon to order pizza when it sees that you’re at home on a Saturday night.
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That's too creepy for me. If I want pizza, I just order it.

zapjb · Mar 20, 2019

There is no more creepy we're just old.

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