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Tom Snyder: Mobile devices deliver our data, our ‘proxy selves,’ whether we like it or not

Posted by Jodi Leese Glusco | Mar 11, 2024

It is no coincidence that when you get home from the game, the first commercial delivered to you is to buy a jersey for the team you just watched play. Your phone (or your smartwatch) was an excellent proxy for your location by nature of its electronic relationships with all the fixed-location gear it wirelessly shook hands with during the day.

Marshall Brain: Drones, security cameras can make our society safer

Posted by Jodi Leese Glusco | Feb 2, 2024

When AI detects a crime unfolding, the AI can call the police and they can arrive on the scene instantly.

Patent harvest: Raleigh location tracking startup WISER lands 5th in a year

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Dec 7, 2022

Startup WISER Systems is building up a considerable arsenal of intellectual property. Here’s the latest.

Google should limit location data collection to protect abortion seekers, US lawmakers say

Posted by Jason Parker | May 25, 2022

In a letter written by U.S. lawmakers to Google’s CEO, the co-signers allege that an “intentional choice” made by Google creates a “new digital divide.”