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I appreciate that this is not a mass surveillance play and all of the data stays on your phone. Well done!



So true. This is the sort of thing that is so exciting from a usability and engineering standpoint. Until some marketer gets their hands on it and decide that they can increase the ROI on microtargeting advertisements by 0.1% if they use this data. Suddenly, we continue to slide into the advertising and propaganda driven attention economy dystopia.

Here's to the future!




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