Don’t Panic! Data is Here to Help
Why the data panic? We’ve likely all been exposed to various news segments and articles warning us about the darkening cloud of location sharing and location history. Word on the street suggests anything you use on a daily basis, such as your mobile device, Facebook or Google, is tracking you. This looming tracker is hidden deep in your smartphone. It’s tricked you, it’s hard to find, you’re seeing articles on “how to stop it!” and it’s creating a panic. It sounds like an infectious disease, as “it affects anyone with an Android phone or iPhone users running Google Maps,” …
Data Democratization Debates Debunked
A few weeks ago, we dove into the great location-sharing debate. Negative perception is the common theme, but in further examining why location data is shared and what’s done with it, the bottom line is intended to benefit both businesses and consumers while reducing mass-marketing noise. But now it’s getting even more controversial – security researchers say that iPhones are “quietly sharing the location data of tens of millions of mobile devices” with third-party data companies that in turn, monetize that data. This sounds invasive. How exactly is this happening? Simply put, many apps on your phone have code embedded …
Data: To Share or Not To Share
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Blockchain Grant Drives Democratization of Data for LOCALLY (formerly Digital2Go)
LOCALLY (formerly Digital2Go) to use the NEM smart asset blockchain to democratize the use and collection of contextual mobile location data for consumers and mobile app publishers everywhere March 13, 2018 – Irvine, CA and Melbourne, Australia – The not for profit NEM.io Foundation and LOCALLY, formerly Digital2Go Media Networks, Inc. (D2GO), today announced that D2GO has successfully raised 1.8 million XEM, equivalent to $1 million USD, through the NEM blockchain community fund. The funds raised will be used to integrate D2GO’s LocationCore (TM) platform on the NEM blockchain, making it the first location-based platform to utilize the technology. …
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