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Locational services and cool data visualizations

OPC blogger , March 26, 2010 - Data mining, Location, PIPEDA

Earlier this month, a rich subset of social media users and technology evangelists descended upon Austin, Texas for the annual SxSW interactive conference. Some see SxSW (South by SouthWest) as an early indicator of developing technology trends. Twitter, the popular microblogging service, broke out as a popular consumer application at the conference two years ago.

Where you are also tells us where you aren’t

OPC blogger , February 19, 2010 - Internet and online, Location, Social networking

The combination of microblogging services like Twitter and location-aware social networking games on your mobile device like Foursquare is like the Red Bull and vodka of the internet — it’s one big party until your great-aunt’s end table is smashed.

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The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s blog serves as an informal platform for writing about trends that are of interest to our office, our stakeholders and the Canadian public.

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