Don’t Panic! Data is Here to Help
Why the data panic? We’re exposed to various news segments and articles warning us about the darkening cloud of location sharing and location history. It’s like there are suddenly no more location sharing benefits! 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 hides deep in your smartphone. It tricks 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 …
Data Democratization Debates Debunked
A few weeks ago, we dove into the great location-sharing debate. Negative perception is the common theme. We take a deeper dive into how location data benefits both businesses and consumers while reducing mass-marketing noise so you know what you’re sharing and why. The topic of location sharing is getting 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 that …
Data: To Share or Not To Share
We consider all the drivers of change – from the ground up and we’ll motivate and support you to make the change. …
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. …