Posts Tagged privacy

Matt Galligan and SimpleGeo

Matt Galligan, CEO and founder of SimpleGeo recently spoke with Social Bits about his new technology. SimpleGeo is about making it easy for developers to create location aware software, it provides developers with the understanding of the coordinates that they might get from their devices, “for example, if you’re building a dating app and want to get a better idea of where your users are we can translate that coordinate into something meaningful, it could be a city, state or neighbourhood, even the weather of where that persons standing, we’re trying to develop a world where application developers don’t have to worry about complexities of geo location" SimpleGeo's API Tools and SDKs make it possible for developers to take their location-aware app ideas from sketch to launch in much less time, with far less complexity. The possibilities for the uses of geo location based software are endless. “In brad Fitzpatricks’ garage, he built way of communicating to garage door, connected to the internet. This is based on his geo location and maps as soon as he gets within a certain radius of his home, his garage will then automatically open, it may be laziness but its pretty cool.”

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IPhone and Android Tracking Files

Iphone Tracking

A file has been discovered this week on the Ipad, Iphone and Android that tracks users movements using CellId. Although not as accurate as GPS this can log users movements without their knowledge. This could spell legal issues for these brands in countries such as France, Germany and Italy where this is seen as a violation of users privacy. For more background to this story you can read this article: "iPhone: Tracking or Logging?"

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Friend Lists and Privacy on Facebook

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Share Lists on Facebook are crucial as far as your privacy goes. It’s important that you know about them so you can guard your privacy. No point being friends on Facebook with that person from school who  never had a good word to say about you after you left  school! However you have already “Friended” them on Facebook. Too late now you may think. Well no, its not! With lists [...]

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