Comment on People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are

woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• howlingecko@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Doesn’t Google Maps show trends instead of live numbers?

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It has both.

    It also doesn’t have numbers, it has unlabeled columns.

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It wouldn’t surprise me if the way it determines how busy places are would be considered a bigger privacy violation than these webcams (which only show people in their areas while Google somehow can report on how busy many arbitrary locations are vs their usual).

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Busy”, “More busy than usual”,… Not absolute numbers.

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depends on the area (maybe), but I think it can do either.

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