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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

These terrifying statistics make me wonder if it’s time to change given that our privacy is starting to diminish. After having read the immensely resourceful book, The Facebook Effect , I’m starting to understand how our world is changing thanks to social networks.

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Has Social Media Killed Off Privacy?

Laurel Papworth

What with Tom Tom selling our GPS data to the police that then book us for speeding, and facial recognition connecting our faces to our social networks and the privacy implications that entails, are we thinking enough about the big issues in our rush to upload, tag and share content in online communities?

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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Most location-based services have a few basic social networking features like finding and adding friends, and communicating with friends via private messages. The most widely understood method is through Global Positioning System (GPS) data obtained from navigational satellites in geosynchronous orbit. Brightkite.

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This Is Being Recorded. By You

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Most people just stare at the map of their GPS system and wait for the voice commands to bark out their next turn. I never tagged myself as an analytics jockey, but switching over to the trip data screen of my GPS turned the long drive into both a game and fascinating collection of data. social network. foursquare.

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

Trademark number 97097363. Goods and Services Description.

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Why I Did Not Freak Out Over My Stolen iPhone | Bare Feet Blog

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It is only $99 a year and it saved me and my privacy. I had enabled the “Find My Phone&# feature that interacts with the GPS on the device. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? Aloha, Share/Bookmark Thanks for reading!

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Digital Natives in Our Midst | Advice and Opinion

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Network Monitoring. Operating Systems. Social Responsibility. s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.â?? networking. social networking. Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery. Load Balancing. Data Center. Energy Efficiency. Space Management. Mainframes. Enterprise.

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