Location Data Quotes

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.

If we all went to Google right now, or went to Yelp right now, we'd all get the same results, and that seems really, really broken to me. Foursquare should understand the neighborhoods I've spent a lot of time in, and the restaurants that I went to once but never went back to.

On mobile, make sure Facebook's app can know where you are. That not only makes features like Nearby Friends possible but also makes your feed have a few items from your location.

We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.

Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.

People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.

As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.

If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.