[projectvrm] All your social media posts now sorted by location and up for sale

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http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/15/all-your-social-media-posts-are-now-in-the-public-domain-forever

http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/15/geofeedia-geolocates-your-social-media-postings-reaps-3-5m/

‘Without question, Geofeedia has the potential as a game changer. That’s because its software filters, analyzes, and then geolocates your social media postings, all in real time, in any town, city, or country. In other words, anything you post on Twitter or Instagram, for example, is tagged, with your name on it, for the world to see.’

“We’re not hiding anything or doing things we shouldn’t be doing. We are an aggregator of public information, and we are making it easier to aggregate that information. So there’s no privacy concern from our end,” their CEO said.

No one on this list will be surprised by those quotes from the above posts, describing a product that sorts all your social media posts by location and puts then up for sale to any and all bidders, tagged, with your name on it, for the world to see.’

But that last italicized phrase – up for sale to any and all bidders, tagged, with your name on it, for the world to see –  may be quite helpful to our cause because it makes crystal clear an aspect that is usually ignored about the surveillance every customers is constantly under: It’s just not the actual stalking that is potentially damaging to csutomers, but much more problematic is the results are available to anyone.

Perhaps then as part of our marketing strategy to a wider audience, we should make a bigger point of how easily (and forever) accessible location information now is to anyone paying a minimal fee.

IMHO, since users aren’t as generally concerned as we’d expect them to be about the extent of stalking, then perhaps the promiscuous availability of the results to anyone is a credible candidate to join the legitimate issues (along with their kids, cars, and cats) customers wake up every morning worrying about,. So emphasizing the available to anyone message is more likely to incentivize change.

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