One of the more infamous data usage stories over the last week concerned the removal of the iPhone app, “Girls Around Me.” This app aggregated Foursquare and Facebook data via their respective APIs to generate a map, with pictures, of women in the immediate vicinity that had checked in their locations using Foursquare. Note that this is not the only app that uses gender specific Foursquare location data, but it was the first to also automatically pul
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