Foursquare partners with TripAdvisor

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> the company also has analytics based on a consumer panel of more than 70 million people in the U.S. — 10 million of whom that have opted into always-on location sharing.

I don’t believe it. 10M people opted in to be tracked? What exactly constitutes “opting in” in this case?

I get the feeling foursquare’s whole business is built on tricking people into opting in to more than they expected.

I wonder how many of this 10M are on Android. iOS will warm you when apps you aren’t using much are tracking you.

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