People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are - eviltoast
  • howlingecko@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Doesn’t Google Maps show trends instead of live numbers?

    Edit: I used “numbers” because I wasn’t sure how to end my question. Stats? Values?

    • catloaf@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      It has both.

      It also doesn’t have numbers, it has unlabeled columns.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        It wouldn’t surprise me if the way it determines how busy places are would be considered a bigger privacy violation than these webcams (which only show people in their areas while Google somehow can report on how busy many arbitrary locations are vs their usual).