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Apple Debuts iBeacon Location Technology in U.S. Stores

The Realtime Report

How is iBeacon different than using GPS for geo-location? Transmission through Bluetooth wireless technology gives your phone precise information about where you are in the store, while GPS transmitters don’t work well indoors and don’t distinguish well between locations only a few feet apart. And what about privacy?

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Best Photo Exif Editor Tools For Mac To Look For In 2020

Tweaklibrary

Well, if you are concerned about your privacy, you need to know what Photos Exif Editor is and its role in securing your picture’s metadata. Whether you want to change your picture’s copyright information, or you want to remove the location details for enhanced privacy, an exif editor is all you need. What Is EXIF Data? Get It Here.

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10 social media sites, blogs and links you might have missed

Direct Marketing Observations

Social Media Marketing GPS: A New Media Roadmap For Creating A Social Media Strategy. From one of our weekly Tweetchats hosted by JD Lasica on Facebook and Privacy , this link was shared: Facebook Backlash Sparks Transparency Tools which has a couple of really good tools in the article. Fan Page List has all the data.

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This Is Being Recorded. By You

Twist Image

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. Vancouver Sun - not yet published. big brother.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

It means giving up one’s privacy. Facebook in particular is notorious for privacy issues. Twitter was riddled with tweet spam early in its ramp up phase, though the service has added tools and made other significant strides since then to combat spam and p*rn on its network. Not an unreasonable concern. The solution?

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How Glympse Can Track Your Friends

Ari Herzog

The tool is reminiscent of Google Latitude meeting a text message. While metrics showing website visitors are not spectacular, the tool shines on any mobile device that can transmit GPS information. Here is a demo screenshot from Glympse.com.

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Location Tracking Ban on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

Tweaklibrary

The system from Apple & Google will be using Bluetooth signals instead of storing GPS location data. The companies are quite certain about not allowing the use of GPS location data with contact tracing systems. Contact tracing can help slow the spread of COVID-19 and can be done without compromising user privacy.

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