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> "your system will need to create this information" Or it could ask me to identify locations that I care to have context-aware functionality for -- and then n
by roc 13y ago
> "your system will need to create this information"
Or it could ask me to identify locations that I care to have context-aware functionality for -- and then not build a complete history of my movements, with all the associated privacy risks involved, just so that it can guess at what's important to me.
This is my core complaint with Google Now as well. This "track everything and try to sift meaning out of the data" approach is not the only way. It requires someone amass have a massive pile of data on me that I am flatly uncomfortable with.
There's the concern about corporate data sharing/selling, corporate data breaches and now the NSA. It's flatly Just Not Worth It, just so that my phone can spare me the trouble of manually entering a handful of addresses. (Most of the addresses I care about are already in my contacts list.)
That telcos have this information is itself a fault in the system. Not an excuse to give it to everyone.
- hahainternet 13y ago> This is my core complaint with Google Now as well. This "track everything and try to sift meaning out of the data" approach is not the only way. It requires someone amass have a massive pile of data on me that I am flatly uncomfortable with. You're right, it's not the only way. That's why I leave only location history on and turn off everything else. I get weather, appointments, stocks and directions to home. Lovely.
- danudey 13y agoThe biggest benefit I see for identifying frequently-visited locations is that it provides a shortcut for the system to narrow your location down much more accurately without relying on the full GPS+WiFi location-based tracking. WiFi network + frequent location can probably put you at your house, your office, or your bus stop almost instantaneously (with corrections coming as GPS updates), meaning that using location-based services like Find my iPhone, map routing, or (my most frequent use case) nearest bus stops and their times, can be accomplished much faster and with less battery life. Likewise, a poor GPS location + frequent locations can narrow you down much faster even with WiFi turned off. As long as this data is stored only on my phone and not provided wholesale to applications, I'm fine with it; otherwise, it's concerning.
- roc 13y agoIf adding SSID is helpful, then it can be included in the "location" definition that I'd still rather manually specify.