The New York Times has a piece on mobile location technology, outlining the benefits and the dangers of enabling your location to be determined from your mobile — and ending with a dig at the FCC for not tightening the rules despite various companies in the industry banding together to lobby them to.
The benefits are widely discussed — targeted advertising, effective social networks and so on. The dangers have also been widely covered…
“The technology has been ready for a while, but not the customers. Prospective benefits have seemed paltry when placed against privacy concerns. Who will have access to our location information
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