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Ridgewood NJ, the ongoing battle between data collection and privacy has now arrived in Ridgewood’s Central Business District. At the heart of the debate is whether Ridgewood Guild should use smartphone data to track foot traffic patterns—especially when it involves children.
Some local residents have expressed concern about the Ridgewood Guild’s use of location data from smartphones. They argue that tracking people’s whereabouts, particularly kids, raises serious privacy issues. But supporters of the technology, and the company behind it, Placer.ai, argue that there is no cause for alarm.
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