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Meredith Whittaker
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I've always found those location tracking apps to be creepy, even when it has an apparent legitimate use to it.
The best cases I can think of is like Google Maps (and I don't know how privacy friendly Google is) and like Pokémon Go which is a gimmick game (which loves microtransactions).
Persistent surveillance sold as a cure for loneliness (alienation, isolation, etc) is, IMO, one of the central marketing narratives of the surveill...
