#GeoFence

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Discover the magic behind geofencing technology! From enhancing customer engagement to improving operational efficiency, find out why businesses are leveraging this game-changing tool to stay ahead of the curve.

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I think the grossest thing in America is diametrically opposed religious organizations mashing their dogma together over nationalism, property and power. And it all ties together with fast food. And they are always the first to cry cultural appropriation when an individual step outside their personal geographic boundaries in a way that doesn’t please the neighborhood . Maybe judge the dumb look on your face when you trip over the clearly marked red lines in the constitution. Would you like fries with that? Maybe a slice of cheesecake? How about some humble pie? You look like a dumbass. 🍟

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So here is the long and short of it:

Google used (uses) geofencing data, location data that undeniably shows where you and your phone have been.

Google sells this data to data brokers and advertisers, whether you like it or not. And yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me if Apple also did/does this, but if they do, Tim Cook has done a yeoman’s job of keeping it secret.

Google also hands out your location data to police departments (and governmental agencies led by conservative, anti-abortion Republicans, but I’m sure that’s unimportant, right?).

Now—and here’s the crux of the matter—just as the government was using Google’s location data to prosecute January 6th rioters, Google has had a sudden change of heart and will effectively limit their ability to remotely store your GPS information on their servers (which means it will mostly only be available locally on your Android phone’s hard drive, thus making it significantly harder - not completely impossible - for Google to give the police access to bulk location data, even if presented with a search warrant).

The bottom line is, it was always wrong for Google to collect and then sell their “reverse location search data” to advertisers, data miners, the police and the government. The germane question is, why now? Why has Google suddenly found Jesus, so to speak, and decided that customers privacy rights are sacrosanct, just as the U.S. government is using that data to prosecute Trump sycophants who wanted to overthrow the election?

SN: I think the whole green bubble vs. blue bubble argument is a stupid made up problem by whiny people who don’t have enough real problems in life (if you disagree then please go make your own post), and Idgaf if you’re an Android or an iPhone user. If you’re happy with your phone, that’s all that matters — but our privacy rights constantly being violated isn’t trivial, that’s actually very important. And Google suddenly deciding that now is the best time for them to end their practice of ratting people out seems highly sus.

👉🏿 https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/11/25/the-maga-tourist-geofence-and-the-violent-confederate-flag-toting-geofence/

👉🏿 https://www.forbes.com/sites/cyrusfarivar/2023/12/14/google-just-killed-geofence-warrants-police-location-data/

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Hero of the Week: February 12, 2024: Dr. Joseph Mercola

“By debanking me, my CEO, CFO, their spouses and children, Chase Bank is giving people a foretaste of how central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will be used to control the masses.” ~ Dr. Joseph Mercola

“… Because of his vast following and positions on health matters, Mercola has been faced with intense scrutiny and censorship, as well as, more recently, restrictions on his and his associates’ bank accounts. He is now pushing back on the threat of financial transaction control. We applaud him for continuing to highlight a wide range of important concerns…”

Full Report: https://home.solari.com/hero-of-the-week-february-12-2024-dr-joseph-mercola/

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“If you don’t collect [the data] you can’t give it to the government or have it breached by hackers,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told The Guardian.

#geofencing #surveillance #privacy

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Is Geofencing Competitors’ Locations Effective?

Modern businesses harness the power of geofencing to advertise their local brands to people with strong buying intent. The specialty of this marketing approach is you can target prospects within a predefined geographic location near your business area. For example, if you own a café in a commercial zone. You can target nearby office buildings, shopping complexes, bus/train stations, etc. to find desired customers.

Besides, some enterprises even choose competitors’ locations for geofencing advertising. They believe it's the most convenient technique to lure away competitors' customers and grow sales. However, some people are yet to discover the effectiveness of geofencing competitors' locations. Are you one among them? If so, reading this blog, you will have a great takeaway.  

A Brief Introduction to Competitor Geofencing

Suppose you are driving to a nearby restaurant for lunch. Suddenly a message from another restaurant pops up on your mobile device saying, "Get 20% off on today's menu. Avail the offer now.” Won't you love dining at this restaurant? Such ads presenting attractive offers often excite potential customers to visit the business. This marketing method to attract competitors’ customers with promotional ads is competitor geofencing or geo-conquesting. The process involves creating geofences around competitor stores, collecting and assessing customer data, and creating and distributing personalized ads.

However, you should know your target audiences and identify competitor locations to set up a successful competitor geofencing ad campaign.

Want to launch a competitor geofencing ad campaign? You can look for a trusted geofencing marketing partner to know the appropriate practices for this.

Benefits of Geofencing Competitors’ Locations

Now that you have a basic idea about geofencing competitors’ locations, it’s time to know its compelling benefits.

Competitor geofencing helps a business create a competitive edge in the market. It is possible in multiple ways.

· Since you are targeting a competitor store, you can obviously get in touch with people interested in your products or services. It helps businesses reach more relevant audiences and build a loyal customer base.

· Instead of luring away prospects stepping into a competitor store, you can also attract people who have recently visited the location. For example, if you own a retail store, you can target audiences who have entered your competitor's outlet in the past week. In this way, you can engage more customers and increase in-store traffic.

· Besides, when you geofence competitor locations, you can target prospects near that selected location. Indirectly, you can attract these audiences with timely offers and encourage them to visit your store at least once.

Are you excited to know more? You can visit this link for better knowledge.  

Takeaway

Geofencing competitors’ locations is a marketing technique to strengthen customer engagement and boost marketing revenues. Big brands like Burger King use this geofencing idea to grow their sales target. What about you?

If you want to set up this location-targeting ad campaign around your competitors, you can find companies like Get Geofencing to assist you. You can talk to the experts to strategize your ad campaign according to your business requirements.

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Between Two Buns

Sometimes I go to the vault to find a topic for The Daily Blog. After all, there is a wealth of teachable moments in the past. If there is one thing we marketers will be remembered for is that we are a bottomless pit of newsworthy actions, from amazing successes to dismal failures.

And as it turned out, Oldest Daughter shared a TikTok Reel with me a few days ago recounting one of those successes. I quickly knew I had to use this tale once more, which I had covered in The Daily Blog on 5th December 2018. From the 4th through the 12th that month, Burger King trolled McDonald’s by launching a promotion that required people to go to McDonald’s first.

Huh?

It was all about what was then a fairly new idea, geofencing. Basically, it involves setting up a virtual perimeter, and typically, businesses set one up around their own property. But Burger King did the opposite, setting up the perimeter around 14,000 McDonald’s locations. Once within the perimeter, which was usually set at about a 600-foot radius, an offer of a 1-cent Whopper would pop up in the Burger King app. The goal was to divert customers, and the effort has become legendary.

Of course, there is always risk in sending potential customers to a competitor first, and Burger King had to think strategically as to which McDonald’s locations to fence, because if there wasn’t a BK unit nearby, people would probably give up and just get a Big Mac. And if you didn’t own a smartphone AND had not downloaded the app, this promo just went flying right by your head.

Still, this was guerrilla marketing executed pretty much without flaw. Well, except that once Burger King did it, I have not heard of it being done again, at least not on a large scale. It’s one of those things that everyone quickly figured out could be used endlessly against anyone. Including you. Remember that Golden Rule? Yeah. While BK was no doubt giddy about this, imagine if McDonald’s had responded in kind? Or, worse yet, all the other burger joints formed a coalition to show Burger King a thing or two?

At some point, you just become a bad neighbor, and while it is always possible to play this card, maybe you shouldn’t. Tit for tat, you know. It might not end well.

That said, I am still a big fan of geofencing when it comes to your own property. Burger King could have done the whole promo using its own locations exclusively, but no. They wanted workers and managers in those McDonald’s locations to see people pulling in, and then leaving without ordering. That’s both diabolically delicious, as well as cruising for a bruising.

Looking back nearly five years now, we see that while the promo was a hit, it didn’t really change anything. Burger King has only a 1.2-percent share of the market. You really don’t want to poke a sleeping bear, and in this case, the bear—McDonald’s—could have crushed BK if it wanted to. Burger King should count its blessings.

And we should count this as yet another example of a high-tech strategy that worked, but one that should be realigned to focus more on the marketer and not so much on the competitor. Just because you can, does not always mean you should. It was cute. Some might say brilliant. I agree, but it was risky.

I’d put that fence over on my property, and work on being a better neighbor. Robert Frost once wrote, “Good fences make good neighbors.” I’m with him.

Dr “Having It My Way” Gerlich

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What is Geofencing: Understanding Location-Based Technology

Discover the concept of geofencing and delve into the realm of location-based technology. This comprehensive guide offers insights into how geofencing works, its applications across various industries, and its potential benefits for businesses and consumers alike. Gain a clear understanding of how geofencing enables businesses to create virtual boundaries, trigger notifications or actions based on users' proximity to specific locations, and enhance personalized experiences. Explore the innovative possibilities of geofencing technology and its role in shaping the future of location-based services.

Visit - https://www.workstatus.io/blog/workforce-management/what-is-geofencing/

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Geofencing Mobile App Development

Geofencing is a very important feature of mobile applications. Learn more about geofencing and find out how it can help you with location tracking app development. For example, geofencing allows mobile apps to send notifications to potential clients who are close to a business establishment such as a restaurant or dry cleaner.

Geofencing App Development for Proximity Marketing Using geofencing in mobile app development is a great way to reach consumers, increase store visits and increase revenue. Geofencing is a technology that uses GPS and mobile device data to create a virtual perimeter around a specific location. It is also a great way to send relevant messages to smartphone users within a predefined radius.

Geofencing app development can include features such as location tracking, promotions and discounts. It can also be used to increase productivity. For instance, some businesses send coupon or other offers to customers to encourage them to visit their store or buy their product. Geofencing also helps in keeping elderly people from wandering unsupervised. A geofence is a virtual perimeter that is defined within the mobile app code. It can be a polygon or a triangular shape. Geofences can be triggered by mobile device ID or by other location data. A common geofence is a two or three-minute walking radius. The radius can be defined in centimeters or kilometers.

Using the location API, developers can create a Geofence object and add it to their app. Geofences are created using a builder class. A PendingIntent class is also available that makes adding geofence objects to the app as easy as a few clicks. Geofencing has become a standard practice for plenty of businesses. For example, car dealerships can use geofences to keep track of who clicked on their advertisements. Other companies use geofencing to send promotions to mobile device users within a predefined geographic area.

Visit: Lets Nurture

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What Is the Best Approach to Setting Up a Smart Garage?

As homes become more interconnected and smart devices permeate every corner of daily life, the garage is often overlooked. However, integrating smart technology into your garage can significantly enhance convenience, security, and efficiency. So, what is the best approach to setting up a smart garage? Whether you’re looking to streamline your morning routine or boost the security of your home, a…

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How cable monopolists tricked conservatives into shooting themselves in the face

No matter how hard conservative culture-war cannon-fodder love big business, it will never love them back. Take network policy, where rural turkeys in Red State America keep on voting for Christmas, then profess outrage when Old Farmer Comcast gets to sharpening his ax.

For two years, the FCC has been hamstrung because MAGA Senators refuse to confirm Gigi Sohn, leaving the Commission with only four commissioners. What do the GOP have against Sohn? Well, to hear them tell of it, she’s some kind of radical Marxist who will undermine free enterprise and replace the internet with tin cans and string.

The reality is that Sohn favors policies that will specifically and substantially benefit the rural Americans whose senators who refuse to confirm her. For example, Sohn favors municipal fiber provision, which low-information conservatives have been trained to reflexively reject: “Get your government out of my internet!”

Boy, are they ever wrong. The private sector sucks at providing network connectivity, especially in rural places. The cable companies and phone companies have divided up the USA like the Pope dividing up the “New World,” setting out exclusive, non-competing territories that get worse service than anyone else in the wealthy world. Americans pay some of the highest prices for the lowest speeds of any OECD nation.

For ISPs, bad service is a feature, not a bug. When Frontier went bankrupt in 2020, we got to look at its books, which is how we discovered that the company booked the one rural customers with no alternative as “assets” because they could be charged more for slower, less reliable service:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/frontiers-bankruptcy-reveals-cynical-choice-deny-profitable-fiber-millions

We also learned that Frontier had calculated that it could make an extra billion in profit by bringing fiber to three million households, but chose not to, because it would take a decade to realize those profits, and during that time, executives’ stock options would decline in value as analysts punished them for making long-term bets.

We can bring fiber to rural America, and when we do, amazing things happen. McKee, Kentucky — one of the poorest places in America — used federal grants and its New Deal era rural electrification co-op to bring fiber to every household, using a mule called Ole Bub to run it over difficult mountain passes, and the result was an economic miracle:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us

The only Americans who consistently say they like their ISPs are people who live in the 700+ small towns that have run their own fiber, mostly in Red States:

https://muninetworks.org/communitymap

Small wonder that rural Americans prefer muni fiber to commercial ISPs’ offerings. When Trump’s FCC Chair Ajit Pai gave them billions in subsidies to improve rural connectivity, the monopolists spent it pulling new copper lines, not fiber — which would have been thousands of times faster.

Given all that, it takes a lot to convince rural Americans that municipal fiber is bad for them. Specifically, it takes disinformation. More specifically, it takes the lie that municipal fiber would result in “government interference” in users’ communications.

Boy, is this ever wrong. Private companies are free to set their own content moderation policies, and can discriminate against any viewpoint they wish. They can and do remove “lawful but awful” speech like racist diatribes, vaccine denial, election denial, and other conservative fever-dreams.

Contrast that with local governments, who are bound by the First Amendment, and prohibited from practicing “viewpoint discrimination.” This means that if a local government allows one viewpoint on a subject, they are generally required to allow all other viewpoints on that subject. This is how we get the Satanic Temple’s excellent stunts, like demanding that towns that display Christian icons on public lands also display statues of Baphomet right next to them.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/17/639726472/satanic-temple-protests-ten-commandments-monument-with-goat-headed-statue

When your town government runs 100gb fiber into your basement or garage, it will have a much harder time blocking you from, say, running a Mastodon instance devoted to election denial or GhostGun production than your commercial ISP will. Convincing American conservatives to hate municipal broadband was a gigantic self-own:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/17/turner-diaries-fanfic/#1a-fiber

Even worse is what rural America has been sold instead of municipal fiber: Starlink, the My Pillow of broadband. Starlink sells itself as blazing-fast satellite broadband, but conspicuously fails to talk up the fact that every Starlink user in your neighborhood competes for the same wireless spectrum as you, so the service can only get slower and more expensive over time:

https://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/starlink-nov-2022-data-caps.html

There’s been a concerted smear campaign against Sohn, and one of the major talking points is that Sohn is anti-cop because she sits on EFF’s board, and EFF wants to place limits on police access to commercial surveillance data. Which is wild, because one of EFF’s demands is limits on geofenced reverse warrants, where cops ask Google to reveal the identity of everyone who was in a specific place at a specific time. If you’ve heard about geofenced warrants lately, it was probably in the context of conservative outrage at their use in rounding up the January 6 insurrectionists.

Now, the primary use of these is to target Black Lives Matter demonstrators and other protestors, and EFF advocates for the normal Fourth Amendment rights that everyone is guaranteed in the Constitution. Conservative pundits didn’t give a damn about geofenced warrants until the J6 affair, and now they do — but they still insist that Sohn should be disqualified from sitting on the FCC because she shares their outrage at the abuse of private surveillance data by law enforcement.

All this raises the question: why have all these Red State senators made it their mission in life to block the appointment of an FCC commissioner who would deliver so many benefits to their constituents? It’s hard to say, of course, but Luke Goldstein has a suggestion in today’s American Prospect:

https://prospect.org/politics/democratic-majority-at-the-fcc-still-blocked/

“A torrent of lobbying money from the telecom industry has flooded Washington to block Sohn’s arrival at the FCC. AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, and T-Mobile doled out over $23 million lobbying Washington this year.”

And why would these companies spend millions to block Sohn from sitting on the Commission? Because she would help the Democratic majority pass policies that make broadband cheaper and faster for America, especially rural America where costs are highest and service is worst, and this will limit the telco monopolists’ profits.

There’s a new Democratic senate majority that’ll sit in 2023, so perhaps Sohn will finally be seated and start delivering relief to all Americans, even the turkeys who can’t stop voting for Christmas.

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Tracking Kids Using GPS Trackers

In a world where safety is a top priority for parents, kids tracking technology has emerged as a vital tool for ensuring peace of mind, particularly with the best GPS tracker options available today. This article explores the importance of GPS trackers for children, detailing various types available, from wearable devices to the best GPS watch options for kids. We highlight essential features…