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The reason Color got funded isn't because it will let people share photos with nearby people. It's because anyone who installs it will have authorized Color to
by lukev 16y ago
The reason Color got funded isn't because it will let people share photos with nearby people. It's because anyone who installs it will have authorized Color to do personal data collection on a massive scale. The photo sharing bit is little more than a pretext to get them to install it.
- pclark 16y agoDid you listen to the interview? The CEO explicitly said that they collect no personal data, and that the only data transferred to their servers is photographs, their locations and the iPhone ID - of which they have no way of tying back to an actual person. The reason Color got funded is because, as the founder explains, this is a new kind of social graph and could easily become as huge as Facebook.
- lukev 16y agoPhotos, locations and iPhone ID seem pretty personal to me. The interesting point is, end users don't give a damn for "social graphs". They just want to be able to connect to their friends, and maybe a friend of a friend in the very odd edge case. The only people who get excited about social graphs those who see it as a data mine.
- pclark 16y agoI bet they care even less about privacy