Google: A Digital Deer Stalker
August 2, 2018
The digital Natty Bumpos and Chingachcooks are on the job some pundits believe. In fact, Beyond Search has learned that some skeptical souls think Google is following you, me, heck, everyone.
We’ve all been suspecting that we are being digitally followed for quite some time now. Ever since smart phones started getting smarter than us, there’s been that suspicion. Recently, Google confirmed this but with an interesting caveat. We learned more from an in-depth IB Times story, “Tech Expert Explains How Google Maps Tracks Real Time Traffic.”
According to the story:
“Google Maps keeps on tapping the mobile phones of millions of people who keep their location services “ON” while they are on roads without hampering the security and privacy of the users. This data tracks the average speed at which the sedans are moving to a particular location.”
That’s a tough realization to come to. Yes, our driving is being intermittently watched, but the result is a better navigation tool. For example, Waze recently started using more artificial intelligence to its program. The plan is that the already crowd-sourced material from the driving app will be enhanced by predictive analytics and artificial intelligence in order to create a user experience that hopefully takes the edge off gridlock. What are your thoughts on this? We are, frankly, a little torn between beating our heads against the steering wheel in traffic and wanting to toss our phone out the window and live off the grid.
Nifty idea. Probably impossible for most individuals working, going online, using credit cards, sending text messages, etc.
Patrick Roland, August 2, 2018
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