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    Farcebook, to know where you're going (before you do) :O)

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by 6730b, Dec 18, 2018.

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    Dept. of Brave New World, meet the new Farcebook ceo: Mustapha Zuckermond, the "Resident World Controller" > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World

    "Allow Facebook to predict somewhere you are going before you even get there?"
    https://www.inc.com/betsy-mikel/fac...might-be-reason-enough-to-delete-its-app.html

    The patent makes interesting reading indeed
    http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1="20180352383".PGNR.&OS=DN/20180352383&RS=DN/20180352383
    "A current location of a user may be determined based on location data received from a client device. A transition probability of the user transitioning, within a predetermined time window, from the current location to each of a number of candidate geographic locations may be calculated. In particular embodiments, the transition probability is calculated based at least in part on logged historical location data associated with users who were previously at the current location."
     
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