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> So what does Foursquare do? Well, _our users_ have crawled the world _for us_ and _have told us_ more than 7 billion times where _they’re_ standing and what t
by _lce0 11y ago
> So what does Foursquare do? Well, _our users_ have crawled the world _for us_ and _have told us_ more than 7 billion times where _they’re_ standing and what that place is called. _Each time they do_, we attach a little bit more data _to our models_ about how those places look _to our phones out_ in the real world. _To our phones_, the world looks like this:
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Isn't just me or Foursquare thinks that your phone, running their software, belongs to them?
- privong 11y agoIt is possible that was what they meant, or was a freudian slip. A more charitable interpretation is that the "our" in "our models" encompasses a different subset of people than the "our" of "our phones". So it could been written "we attach a little bit more data to [Foursquare's] models about how those places look [users'] phones out in the real world". The latter replacement of "our" would assume that foursquare employees are also users of foursquare apps (which seems fairly reasonable). But, if that's what they intended to say, it was somewhat ambiguously worded.
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoNo, they probably think that the data that you generate from their software, running on your phone, belongs to them. Which is true.
- chinathrow 11y agoTrue in practice, but not so true in other countries. Data generated by the end user belongs to them.
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoI would imagine that it is dependent on TOS.
- chinathrow 11y agoDepends. Sometimes ownership of data is bound by law - by ToS you can give away some usage rights such as to use/modify/sell/whatnot.