Fun fact: whatever you can do with this data, Google can do as well!
In fact, they can do a lot more since they have data on more than two people.
How fateful?
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#42> Thanks to Google’s location history quietly ticking away collecting GPS data in the background
Thanks but no thanks
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#43My takeaway is this: If you want to meet your significant other, attend a university. After university your chances will dwindle down as you won't frequent that big come together place any more.
I would go as far as saying that most long-term couples meet after university (at least for people who were born after 1980, let's say). During university, a lot of people are still in the experimentation phase. I feel like later in life, maybe end 20s/early 30s, you had enough time to get to know yourself, and know what kind of person you are, what you care about, etc.
Of course, this is anecdotal and based on myself and my friends. But just as a counterpoint to your "go to university" advice =)
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#44My takeaway is this: If you want to meet your significant other, attend a university. After university your chances will dwindle down as you won't frequent that big come together place any more.
Any social gathering is a place where you can meet your significant others, university is not the exclusive place for that. Most most introverted people tend to do though (myself included), is attending less social events as they become older. But you can still force yourself out there and meet people based on your hobbies. And who knows, maybe you meet your significant other at one of those events for your favorite…
Church is really the classical place. It's a shame there's not a similar place for large groups of secular people to gather once a week for social events.
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#45This sounds sort of similar to Strava Flybys[0]. It users your run/ride location data and show people who posted public activies that passed you by. Sometimes interesting, but I bet a lot of Strava users who post their activities as "public" don't know this feature exists and might turn to "followers only" if they did.
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#46Fun fact: whatever you can do with this data, Google can do as well!
Google literally did this during the pandemic
https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
So did apple:
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-makes-mobility-...
Only… they gave that information to government (supposedly post-analysis and anonymized). Regardless the data was quite literally used to “track and trace” then as a mechanism / justification to place you under house arrest.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google timeline may not be useful to you but it’s an incredible tool to record your own past. Believe me, I care far more than google in my ability to know where I was on April 24 2016.
I don't think I have ever in my life thought "I wish I had location history turned on so I could check where I was at that date". Could you share some examples of how can it be useful? I do find it cool to have such data to do the kind of analysis as presented in this post, but not cool enough to let others (especially Google) possess this data as well.
The data is being tracked either way. You can only choose if you want to see it or not.
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#48This sounds sort of similar to Strava Flybys[0]. It users your run/ride location data and show people who posted public activies that passed you by. Sometimes interesting, but I bet a lot of Strava users who post their activities as "public" don't know this feature exists and might turn to "followers only" if they did. [0] https://labs.strava.com/flyby/
The Flyby feature has been opt-in for about two years.
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#49Fun fact: whatever you can do with this data, Google can do as well!
In fact, they can do a lot more since they have data on more than two people.
They know when your sleeping, they know when your awake. They know when you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake!
Seriously, they know every time you pick up your phone. Where you shop, how much you spend, if you miss a stop in the highway, if you text your parents happy birthday, if your heart rate increases when you’re around a particular phone. They quite literally may know your gay before you do.
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#50And this friends is why "third party" entities collecting your meta data and such is a concern. A lot (read: enough) can be learned about you *and who you associate* without actually listening to your calls, etc. On the surface, this article is cute. After that it's a red flag for all of us.
I'd argue the opposite. People already know what Google can do, this is how you reap some benefits for yourself with the data that's already there.