Day: February 27, 2010

Forget Facebook, here come’s “Placebook”

SearchCompliance.org’s Alexander Howard summarizes a recent Congressional hearing on location-based services and online privacy here. Mobile applications that use geolocation data have been rapidly adopted as the use of smartphones has exploded. “The emerging check-in model is moving from active to passive location sharing,” said Tony Bernard, vice president and general manager of Colorado-based Useful […]