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Geolocation
Emily Price
Australian consumers should be allowed to use technologies like VPNs and proxies to defeat the efforts of companies like Netflix and HBO that stop them from accessing digital content libraries from other countries. That’s the thrust of a Productivity Commission draft report into overhauling Australia’s existing copyright laws that has…
iOS: Shopping always feels more fun when you find a bargain. CloseBuys uses geolocation to identify goods on sale near where you are right now.
Windows/Linux: If you’ve ever doubted how much anyone could track you based on information embedded in geolocation services like Foursquare, Twitter and Flickr, free app Creepy will show you by aggregating GPS coordinates for any user, pointing out their most frequented hangouts on a map.
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