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Location-based services, privacy, loss and exposure
There’s a big hoohah right now over Yahoo!’s new offering of location-based services, yet precious little has been written or said about the second-generation iPhone 3G’s incorporation of a GPS chip that is used by a variety of applications you can buy or get for free from Apple’s App Store. Other mobile devices are playing catch-up, but it seems likely that over the next year personalised GPS services will explode in popularity, following on from the sat-navs that have, in a few short years, become must-have devices for all but the most technophobic—or, at least, technowary—vehicle drivers.
tags: App Store, Apple, biology, class, consumers, culture, data protection, Google Maps, GPS, human beings, iPhone 3G, location-based services, morality, privacy, public, respect, sat-navs, sexual liberation, values, Yahoo!
