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You May Have Forgotten Foursquare, But It Didn't Forget You (wired.com)
nj_peeps shares an excerpt from a report via Wired: [Foursquare cofounder Dennis Crowley says the company is working on a new game.] Think Candyland, but instead of fantasy locations like Lollipop Woods, the game's virtual board includes place categories associated with New York City neighborhoods. There's a Midtown Bar, a Downtown Movie Theatre, Brooklyn Coffeeshop, Uptown Park, and so on. As in Candyland, you move your game piece forward by drawing cards. But in Crowley's version, the cards are the habits and locations of real people whose data has been turned into literal pawns in the game. Foursquare knows where their phones are in real time, because it powers many widely used apps, from Twitter and Uber to TripAdvisor and AccuWeather. These people aren't playing Crowley's game, but their real-world movements animate it: If one of them goes into a bar in midtown, for example, the person playing the game would get a Midtown Bar card.
Ask someone about Foursquare and they'll probably think of the once-hyped social media company, known for gamifying mobile check-ins and giving recommendations. But the Foursquare of today is a location-data giant. During an interview with NBC in November, the company's CEO, Jeff Glueck, said that only Facebook and Google rival Foursquare in terms of location-data precision. You might think you don't use Foursquare, but chances are you do. Foursquare's technology powers the geofilters in Snapchat, tagged tweets on Twitter; it's in Uber, Apple Maps, Airbnb, WeChat, and Samsung phones, to name a few.
Ask someone about Foursquare and they'll probably think of the once-hyped social media company, known for gamifying mobile check-ins and giving recommendations. But the Foursquare of today is a location-data giant. During an interview with NBC in November, the company's CEO, Jeff Glueck, said that only Facebook and Google rival Foursquare in terms of location-data precision. You might think you don't use Foursquare, but chances are you do. Foursquare's technology powers the geofilters in Snapchat, tagged tweets on Twitter; it's in Uber, Apple Maps, Airbnb, WeChat, and Samsung phones, to name a few.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
Steve Wozniak's flight schedules. And all that weird shit.
There's no way around it. If you use a "smart" phone, you're being tracked by at least a handful of shitty companies. If you don't like it, your only option is not to use a "smart" phone.
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Think Candyland, but instead of fantasy locations like Lollipop Woods, the game's virtual board includes place categories associated with New York City neighborhoods. There's a Midtown Bar, a Downtown Movie Theatre, Brooklyn Coffeeshop, Uptown Park, and so on.
This sounds surprising not interesting at all.
Not even in the slightest.
Who??
I used Foursquare maybe all of 10 times around 2010 or so, got bored and haven't looked back since. Didn't even know it was still in existence anymore. That new board game sounds about as interesting as the original Foursquare concept, moving on (again). It's kind of depressing to hear that they are still alive and kicking in a more discreet (but probably incredibly profitable) form, collecting all our PII data and laughing all the way to the bank. Sigh.
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You might think you don't use Foursquare, but chances are you do. Foursquare's technology powers the geofilters in Snapchat, tagged tweets on Twitter; it's in Uber, Apple Maps, Airbnb, WeChat, and Samsung phones, to name a few.
Where can I find the full list? Because I don't use any of those, either. /smirk
No, I can assure you, I don't.
See, I don't use pointless social media, I don't carry a smartphone everywhere I go, and I sure as fuck wouldn't enable location services if I did.
Basically as I read this, FourSquare are assholes, who are making money by tracking you and not compensating you, and somehow I'm not supposed to think they're all shit bags and that I should trust these things?
Yeah, fuck you.
The rest of the world may have lost their shit and decided to allow every asshole of an app track their location.
It is my considered opinion that Dennis Crowley and anybody working for these douchebag corporations has opened themselves up for a beating by anybody and everybody, and that they've waived all privacy rights -- since they seem to think we have.
So, post his kid's school ... post his parents information ... post his banking information ... or just feel free to give him a beat down.
I've found my nice simple rule that "all apps are presumed to be written by assholes" works well. If it's an app, it's spying on you ... period.
I use bare Android without GAPPS. I have no social media anything. I have a very small whitelist for permissions.
For navigation, I either use my non-connected vehicle nav or a non-connected tablet I have with offline maps.
I might be a little surprised of 4SQ has location information on me, but maybe not. I am sure Android itself has location tracking you can't disable, so I am certain Google knows where I am at all times.
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I remember some news about a stalking app using foursquares and facebook data used by stalker to target random women.
Now I remember, they were exposed by an app called girlsaroundme, I though they were finished after some stalking scandal.
... FourSquare looks up YOU!
Ask someone about Foursquare and they'll think of the playground name because the company named after the playground name isn't a household name.
Was it ever a thing?
No we haven't, kids play this every day at lunch. It's been around forever and remains popular. Hopscotch as well.
I was unaware that it had a meaning newer than the playground game that was popular when I was in grade school.
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And they manage to do it in a less creepy way by not tracking the players in realtime.
Or at least not making the tracking data available to other players.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
Friends and family call me paranoid. I keep data and GPS turned off most of the time and don't install apps. This leads to the logical question on why carry a smart phone. The reality is they are *just* useful enough. That time once a week when I need directions. Or need to carry tickets to an event or check-in with an airline.
The reality is you're going to be tracked. The question is how much data you choose to give up. As with other forms of privacy (financial, medical, personal) the system is setup so that the default posture is wide open full disclosure. You can change it, but that takes education and effort........and doing so causes inconvenience. That's by design.
Literally, a pawn is a chess piece. Full stop. Other definitions which might be applied to it exist by virtue of a metaphor for anything or anyone whose loss is relatively inconsequential and typically part of a calculated gamble to achieve some supposedly greater gain.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'