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Google Will Soon Introduce 'Nearby' To Let Others Know When You're Around (Trunc)
Android Police ^ | 6/9/14 | Nadroid Police

Posted on 06/09/2014 11:30:22 AM PDT by illiac

A couple of months ago, we posted one of our early Google Search/Now rumors, and it was something of a long range rumor compared to others. While things like parking reminders, proper timer management, and bill pay reminders have already seen their public release, the ability to set contact-based reminders ("remind me when I'm with this person"), hasn't come forward yet. But it will likely appear very soon with a new feature in Android called Nearby, which will allow new interactions between you and nearby people, places, and things.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: google; spying; technology
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To: JRandomFreeper

Yuu mean to confuse it.

Corrupt would mean a failure to load what they intended to load. They are loading your disinformation and faithfully storing it, just fine! Corrupt is something that happens from software malfunction. You identified as JRandomFreeper but the system shows you as RJandomZookeeper.


21 posted on 06/09/2014 11:57:51 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: F15Eagle

In the vicinity of which there is going to be a “rapture.”


23 posted on 06/09/2014 11:59:02 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: F15Eagle

ain’t that something…..who could have possibly seen that coming?

….oh, wait……….HE did.


24 posted on 06/09/2014 11:59:46 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: illiac
I think I'll develop a competitive product called “Stalk”.
25 posted on 06/09/2014 11:59:50 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: Jonty30

If I wanted to troll around for someone I thought was nearby, I’d send them a loud, obnoxious, distinctive sound clip by email. And then listen to see if anyone played it.


27 posted on 06/09/2014 12:00:59 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: illiac

Ugh...no thank you!


28 posted on 06/09/2014 12:01:01 PM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: illiac

The hospital where our son was in ICU for weeks has let Google in the building to map the place with Virtual tours of the building. That is creepy and stupid. I guess it is a public place, but it is a public safety issue as far as I am concerned.


29 posted on 06/09/2014 12:01:20 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: F15Eagle

Christians would be wise to refocus on things of faith. The world has distracted them. Trivial disagreements have distracted them.

Our promises often fail, but promises of God don’t.


30 posted on 06/09/2014 12:02:30 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: F15Eagle

Christians would be wise to refocus on things of faith. The world has distracted them. Trivial disagreements have distracted them.

Our promises often fail, but promises of God don’t.


31 posted on 06/09/2014 12:02:30 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: petitfour

Telecasing?

Some businesses think it’s a great idea to advertise their facilities that way.

Seems to me that indoors, anything GPS based is going to be dicey.


32 posted on 06/09/2014 12:03:42 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: illiac; All

Hopefully this Nearby app will allow users to build a “need to know” list.


33 posted on 06/09/2014 12:05:05 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Little tricks may confuse some average tracking implementors, but through the advances in machine learning, such noise is easily discarded.


35 posted on 06/09/2014 12:08:18 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: F15Eagle

I posit that it’s about loyalties and attitudes of heart. Gimmicks might or might not be involved.

We can already see glimpses of it in the gay craze. Say something bad about “gay marriage” and you are anathema. No special gadgets are needed to effect this.


37 posted on 06/09/2014 12:10:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

LOL!


38 posted on 06/09/2014 12:11:03 PM PDT by DB
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To: F15Eagle

Just another reason to add to why I don’t carry a cell phone...


39 posted on 06/09/2014 12:12:37 PM PDT by DB
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To: F15Eagle

I wonder if the results from this may not be the business advantage they are cracked up to be.


40 posted on 06/09/2014 12:13:08 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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