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Public institutions are beginning to worry about the impact of new applications that facilitate the geolocation of people in real time. The European Commission believes that affect privacy and therefore should be covered by the Data Protection Directive. The Basque Government, for its part, wants to prevent unauthorized people create and control or Facebook FourSquare Places in their offices and administrative offices.

The truth is that the sum of universal geolocation and cloud computing plunges us into a true paradigm shift in which nobody could have thought two years ago. I take everything in your cell phone and always know where you are. Does this imply some risks?

I have not very clear. Mobile operators have spent years accumulating this information and, to my knowledge, have not used it against us. Quite the reverse: it has been used to prosecute terrorists. The commercial promise that companies send us their advertising based on where we are at all times is more a utopia than a reality. At the moment there is little money in that sector, although Groupon FourSquare and want to change that reality.

It is true that it is more difficult now that wants to hide something. Cheating your partner or get the ubiquity of Rosa Díez are becoming more complicated as it grows the use of social networks that we announce where we are and what we do. Of course, occasionally we need a break from all this and desgeolocalizarnos.

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