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The Dangers of
Location Tracking
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What's So Scary?
01 / Stalking
02 / Accessibility
03 / Lack of Awareness
When it comes to big tech companies collecting the locations of its users, the government idly stands by while, big data invades the lives of millions. Industry giants, like Facebook and Google, are the digital versions of the stereotypical creepy stalker snapping pictures through the window of a stranger’s home.
Social media apps have these hidden agendas to track your locations as soon as you so easily download them. Especially when you think about apps like Google Maps or Waze? They directly track a user’s location from start to finish, including their speed, if they encountered traffic, and the stops made on the way. Don't believe us? Use the link below to learn how to generate a heat map of everyone Google Maps has been tracking you.
The lack of awareness on the dangers of location-tracking and who it goes to are some of the reasons that the digital world continues to be unregulated. People download these apps without realizing the strings that are attached to them. This unknown aspect of location tracking is the reason it will always be around. Until people know what is happening to them, there will never be change made to stop it. Location-tracking is an invasion of privacy that is just as dangerous as its analog counterpart.
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The Issues
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GEOFENCING
Geofencing is a location-based advanced tool that lets marketers send messages to smartphone clients in a characterized geographic region.
WHOSE IN CONTROL?
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Who exactly has control of our information? With so many apps all having the ability to claim rights to our location data, it can be hard to keep track of who we are sharing with.
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DATA MANIPULATION
Location tracking also leaves room for the scary topic of data manipulation to come into play. Data Manipulation to Produce Unethical Results is a real fear in the scientific community and should be for the American people as well.
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current events with location tracking
The future of GPS may seem as if it cannot go any further, however, it is already expecting an upgrade by 2025.