Sentences with phrase «tracks user locations»

Appthority told Inc. that this code could track the user location data of Uber users in U.S. and other parts of the world outside of China.

Tracking user locations is nothing new, but quickly becoming an issue with users of mobile phones, gaming systems, and now navigation systems.

Facebook tracks users locations, but it doesn't have to.

Mitch Lowe, the CEO of Moviepass, told an audience last week that the app tracks user location, both before and after the movie.

Key highlight about the Alcatel Kids watch phone is that it can track the user location and also comes with call functionality.

The company was able to read contacts, emails, text messages, track user locations, record sounds and many more.

Not exact matches

Smartphones and mobile devices offer the option to track and ping a user's location based on GPS coordinates.

Uber has denied that code in a previous version of its app from a Chinese partner company was used to track the location of users outside of the Asian country.

«By not having a map we've ensured that users can not be tracked as you can't see people's precise location,» he tells Business Insider.

To promote Poland's LOT Airlines over Christmas, Facebook used real - time flight - tracking data, Google Maps and its own ad - scheduling software so that when a LOT plane passed over a particular city, users in that location would see a sponsored post reminding them to share a kiss under the mistletoe.

It communicates with other iBeacons in physical locations to track users» whereabouts.

Public transport users will be able to use their smartphones or tablets to track the exact location of Transperth buses in real time by 2016.

Designed to be used only on stolen machines, it allows the rental stores to capture keystrokes, track locations and snap webcam pictures, all without the users knowing.

Smartphone apps that track a user's location to identify potential mates nearby are gaining popularity, but at what cost?

Similarly, Google recently got caught tracking locations of Android users who had opted out.

Facebook monitors users» locations, keeps track of who they call or text through the platform, and monitors the content of their messages.

In the past, companies have misled users about whether they were engaging in location tracking.

The Moviepass service admitted that its app tracks the location of users even when they're not at the cinema.

Reporting on Spangenberg's claims follows recent changes to Uber's app that effectively require users to give Uber permission to track their location when the app is running in the background of a user's phone, according to The Verge.

But some of those future subscribers might be concerned about his company's tactics, which Lowe recently said includes tracking users» location before and after a trip to the movies.

Interested parties might look for how many users were in a particular location at one time, what time of day was the best for mobile tracking, demographic information for each user, and so on.

As part of testimony submitted to the Senate's Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence, wrote, «In the future, intelligence services might use the (Internet of things) for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials.»

Twitter collects similar metadata and can track users» whereabouts even if their location services is disabled.

More than one million users have agreed to leave location sharing on all the time so Foursquare can track and analyze their movements; through a partnership with Nielsen, that data is then being connected to consumers» purchasing data, so that marketers can understand how ads people see directly relate to purchases they make.

Three such examples are Aimsio, a digital ticketing software that streamlines field operations by enabling users to file reports, dispatch resources and track project progress all from one central location; DarkVision, which developed a new ultrasound technology that allows companies to create 3D images of the inside of oil wells, enabling them to make more informed and cost - effective production decisions; and Unsist, which uses artificial intelligence to help oil and gas companies make better production and operational choices.

«We absolutely do not track individual users or their location if they've deleted the app,» Uber reiterated in a statement.

Strava, a fitness tracking application that logs users» movements as they cycle, surf, or jog, has accidentally exposed or confirmed the location of various military bases and facilities all over the world.

Suddenly, Android users discover to their horror that Google's mobile platform tells the company where they are all the time — thanks to baked - in location tracking bundled with Google services like Maps and Photos.

Advertisers could start pairing their own web - tracking data (from «cookies» that follow users online) with potent Google information including search queries, location history, phone numbers and credit card information.

Using location - tracking technology, the Good Food Talks app works by displaying the users» nearest dining outlets that have signed up to the scheme.

Tracking the location of mobile users is now a common idea due to the presence of GPS technology.

Indoor positioning is the next big thing in location - tracking technology, and companies from Google to Nokia have jumped at the chance to prevent users getting lost in cavernous shopping malls, or in the concrete canyons of big cities, where GPS struggles to keep up.

By tracking the location data of Baidu's hundreds of millions of daily users, they could identify the places with the heaviest internet traffic.

«We never really think about it with a cell phone,» says Leetaru, pointing to the ability to trace a user's location by tracking cell towers, essentially «leaving digital bread crumbs wherever you go.»

The firm's Big Data Lab in Beijing has announced that it has used billions of location records from its 600 million users as a lens on the Chinese economy, tracking the flux of people around offices and shops as a proxy measurement for employment and consumption activity.

Tingle tracks a user's location and shares their proximity, as opposed to a specific location, when users pass near one another.

GPS, picture messaging, and Buddy Beacon, which allows users to track the locations of their friends in real time.

While the Urban Crush application is in use, we keep track of your device's geographic location so that we can connect you to other Urban Crush users based on your particular geographic location.

Geo - location tracking allows both users and website administrators the ability to identify scammers or spammers who are logging in from foreign countries, thus keeping them out completely.

Leverage back - end analytics to track usage and performance - related data that are relevant to your business: e.g. volume of users, geographic location of users, content viewed, average time spent in a course or number of questions answered incorrectly in a course.

The AutoSOS service will in such an event assist Auto & General with tracking of a User's GPS Location as well as to monitor incidents, providing User's with an easy to understand and easily accessible point of contact with Auto & General and any further services and / or product offerings which may be provided by Auto & General from time to time.

Apple was recently found tracking the location of its iPhone users, but it doesn't appear to be the only gadget maker consumers using its devices.

I ended up making a USB tracking device that streams the users» location back to our servers.

Unlike traditional tablets, PaperTabs keep track of their location relative to each other, and the user, providing a seamless experience across all apps, as if they were physical computer windows.

Vodafone SatNave enables users to find an address and track their location simply and easily.

In order for kinect to really have viability for hard core gaming, it needed to go Hand in Hand with a motion control method where the optical lenses of the cameras could focus and track your users movements in a game development design that allows the camera to completely focus its compute on very fine focused body locations and points of body language in action.

If you are not familiar with them, they track both locations and high scores, relying on user input for much of their content.

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Basically, most Internet users are tracked from the moment they wake up until they go to sleep through the variety of devices and physical locations revealed by their GPS coordinates.

I also note they appear to have created the website as a portal which tracks users through the site by giving the session an ID tag in the URL (similar to the way Amazon and others track where you have been on their sites by adding session and location tags into the URL as you surf around).