As data gets amassed, people are going to figure out a way to use it. The Los Angeles Times:
Airsage, the provider of vehicle traffic information to Google Maps and other clients, has secured the rights to tap into a vital tool for tracking congestion on roadways -- your cellphone.
The Atlanta-based company has struck a deal with Verizon Wireless to tap into the location data transmitted by its 80 million U.S. subscribers.
Now I'm not worried about privacy issues here, since I assume (and the article states) that Airsage is getting the data in a way that it's not personally identifiable - and they're only interested in aggregate data for their purposes anyway.
But what would it take for me to have access to my own data?
Tom Petty's second and third breakdowns
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I just authored a post on my "JEBredCal" blog entitled "Breakouts, go ahead
and give them to me." I doubt that many people will realize why the title
was...
3 years ago