Posted on 09/30/2023 1:27:22 AM PDT by spirited irish
“Geofencing” often begins with an innocent click. Smartphone apps ask if they can access location to improve service. When users say they yes, they often don’t realize that the apps that help them drive, cook, or pray are likely reselling their information to far-flung for-profit entities. This and other information detailing people’s behaviors and preferences is valuable for businesses trying to target customers. The global location intelligence market was estimated at $16 billion last year, according to Grand View Research, which predicts that figure will grow to $51 billion by 2030.
While it is legal for private companies to broker this information, constitutional questions arise when government accesses data from a third party that it would be prohibited from collecting on its own. The lawsuit filed by Calvary Chapel in August argues that Santa Clara County carried out a warrantless surveillance of the church when it acquired information in 2020 on the church’s foot traffic patterns collected by a research team from Stanford University. Court documents show the researchers acquired the information, which originated with Google Maps, from the location data company SafeGraph, which is also being sued by Calvary.
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>“Geofencing” often begins with an innocent click. Smartphone apps ask if they can access location to improve service. When users say they yes, they often don’t realize that the apps that help them drive, cook, or pray are likely reselling their information to far-flung for-profit entities.
Always remember this about “free” apps. If the app is free, YOU are the product.
When users say they yes,
Don’t say yes...say no or “only when the app is in use” [like for Wayz or other location driven reasons].
Its easy enough to scroll thru your “permissions” section of settings and turn off stuff like location and notifications...a whole host of stuff that usually doesn’t affect the function of stuff. [If it does, turn it back on.]
Sometimes you have to be a little proactive.
• Moreover, there is no guarantee that the data collected through geofencing stays anonymous. “It is often very easy to take supposedly de-identified data and re-identify a person,” said Schwartz, “And it’s very, very easy to do that with location data.” The same phone spotted in two locations, he said, can be easily traced to a specific individual “because people have very unique travel and location patterns.”..
With smartphones that is usually an issue, however there are plenty of desktop free apps which do not call home, thank God.
You can GeoFence without an app...
Using AI, you can put together the anonymized data from cell providers and “figure” out what IMEI # maps to what anonoymized #. This tech has been around for 5+ years. All the big police departments use it.
They can search/track you without a search warrant because it’s public data.
Its quite telling that the
Only
Church ( denominatioNOT)
isn’t
Catholics
Lutherans
Protestants
Episcopalians
Baptists
Assemblies of God
7thday adaventists
Mormans
J.W.’s
Oh no
They target
Calvary Chapels.
Bkmrk
some large congregations at least here in soCal. My wife’s church has over 4,000 members and there is another one in the same city.
They are trying to completely eliminate the Bill of Rights.
I expect to see more and more if this technology used as the antichrist spirit rises. Soon there’ll be implants that can’t be left home.
But they turn back on again often without permission
So why are there not companies that would sell privacy for cell phones and cars. Big market out there?
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