Foursquare is tracking you... responsibly

The Vergecast

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4.4 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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CEO of Foursquare Jeff Glueck discusses the ethics of companies that track their users’ movements. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and Glueck further explore Foursquare's aim to help its customers become less reliant on mapping companies like Google, and how responsibly managing a user’s data and privacy is not only the right thing to do, but good for business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verge's documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:19.0	Hey everybody, it's Neilife from The Vergecast.
0:23.8	This week on the interview episode, we have Jeff Glick, who's a CO4 square.
0:27.6	Now, you may remember 4 square 10 years ago at Launch It's Out by Southwest.
0:31.8	It was an app to check into locations with your friends, become the mayor of the airport
0:35.4	coffee shop.
0:36.9	It's a really different company now.
0:38.2	They still run an app called Swarm lets you check in, but it is a location, data services
0:43.0	provider.
0:44.0	It provides the location services to Snapchat, to Twitter, to everyone that you can think
0:48.2	of that needs to know where you are.
0:50.7	And right now, that is a really dicey kind of company to run because of all of the privacy
0:55.3	conversations you've been having.
0:57.2	4 square I think is doing it right.
0:58.8	And Jeff is a really interesting guy who is really focused on providing the services and
1:03.8	the value that you can get from location while still protecting privacy.
1:06.6	And we really got into it about the trade-offs between everything technology and phones can
1:11.2	do with your location and all of the privacy problems I could cause.
1:14.5	It was a great conversation.
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