• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    So San Francisco just invented the webcam? (Btw, Google Maps already shows how busy establishments are.)

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      4 months ago

      Doesn’t Google Maps show trends instead of live numbers?

      Edit: I used “numbers” because I wasn’t sure how to end my question. Stats? Values?

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        4 months ago

        It has both.

        It also doesn’t have numbers, it has unlabeled columns.

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          4 months ago

          It wouldn’t surprise me if the way it determines how busy places are would be considered a bigger privacy violation than these webcams (which only show people in their areas while Google somehow can report on how busy many arbitrary locations are vs their usual).