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Location Is Your Most Critical Data
- orthecreedence 12y agoYes, location is the most important data...for the people tracking you every second of the day whether it's some fly-by-night startup, Google, or a faceless government agency. I get the exchange that we buy certain things via our privacy, but location is never going to be a coin I toss into the mix. I don't care if I get deals from a store I'm meandering past. I don't care when it's going to rain. When I'm out and about, I'm not looking for deals, I'm going somewhere and don't need the distraction of spending money. If it rains, it rains...what the hell is wrong with being caught in the rain? And it it really hard to have a boarding pass up on the screen when you get to the gate? We all have to sit there waiting at the gate for 40 minutes anyway? That's not enough time to pull up a boarding pass? > The whole goal of Android Wear or the Apple Watch is to quickly offer information you need, without making you bury your face in a screen for minutes at a time. Boohoo? We should sacrifice our last bits of privacy to "the cloud" to save having to pull out our expensive phone, pressing the power button (finger strain/carpal tunnel anyone?!), and tap tapping the screen a bunch of times? BTW I only carry a flip phone with me, so don't even ask.
- pdkl95 12y agoSuspiciously missing from the article: COTRAVELER, which does not need they GPS location that the article talks about.