If you generate a fingerprint of the audio on the phone, you would not leak too much information about the environment. Shazam, for example, computes the spectrum, picks the strongest peaks, and uses the relative positions of small groups of peaks in time and frequency as features to search for in known recordings. Those features are quite sparse and you can not reconstruct the audio from them. You could however iden…
Private home licenses are different from public locals licenses and signals are also slightly different. Actually what bars do is buy a home license and use it for public locals. What I would find infuriating is they get away with it. Data Protection laws are very strict for the little guy, we will see what they do with the 500 pound gorilla. I'm not optimist. These laws did nothing to curb "legal spam" until GDPR. I…
Imagine if your shovel from Home Depot contained a little gps unit and connected to your phone via bluetooth to allow you to license it for usage at different sites with different rates and terms and packages you could sign up for. Buy the homeowner package for only 9.99 a year for one site. Buy the groundskeeper package for 24.99 a year for any site within a 3 mile radius of a given point. Licence unlimited locations for only 49.99 a year!
Want to lend your shovel to your friend no problem just login to your account and share a link and ensure your friend pays the 4.99 fee!
If it doesn't make sense for a shovel I'm not sure why it makes sense for anything else.
Market segmentation certainly means money but I don't see why we as consumers should buy into it or care if its violated.