Re:San Francisco's Least Welcome Start-Up Explains Itself
by MBlume on Saturday May 19, 2012 @03:46AM
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This. I'm having serious difficulty imagining that anyone would object this much if the bar simply hired someone to sit in the corner, count the men and women, and post the numbers on a twitter feed.
Re:San Francisco's Least Welcome Start-Up Explains Itself
by anthonyb on Saturday May 19, 2012 @04:17AM
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Because it's a very short hop from what's described here to full-on tracking, and some marketing company knowing where you are, what you're doing and who you're with at all times.
It's a similar situation to Google's street view - sure, it's in theory in the public domain, but when you start aggregating this sort of thing and making it searchable, it's different.
The thing is, I think most people who object to this so much would probably never even visit those bars where people care what the "scene" is like anyway