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How GoDaddy's Quest For Respect Led To an Improbable Partnership With MIT (fastcompany.com)
harrymcc writes: GoDaddy, the world's biggest domain registrar, remains most famous for its tacky Super Bowl ads and controversial founder, Bob Parsons. But in recent years, the company was sold, hired a CEO from Microsoft and Yahoo, and has made a major effort to reinvent itself as a serious, uncontroversial, technologically-savvy outfit. And now it's partnered with MIT's Media Lab in an ambitious experiment--which I wrote about over at Fast Company--involving placing sensors around downtown Boston to collect big data that could help the small businesses which line the city's streets.
Don't forget they supported SOPA.
Trying to count how many people pass a point is hardly tracking, you moron.
If you even bothered to read the article half a page down, you'd see there's a timelapse photography of visiting customers. This video is stored on a website we download. Ergo, they're storing videos of people walking by and saving them. And so, there's a permanent record of where these customers were at the time - and let's be honest, when are they ever going to delete this? So yes, you could track someone by seeing these videos, easily.
Secondly, I did not say anything about whether I agree or not with these measures, I merely expressed surprise that in saying they want to be non-controversial, they immediately jump right into one of the most hot button topics in society today - privacy. I do disagree with it, yes, but that's not the point I made. Next time, maybe not whine on your gut instinct, Anonymous Coward...
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