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I think it's cool. I don't care that Foursquare has my location. And I continue to use Swarm because I want a record of where I've been and where I want to go.

After watching Long Shot on Netflix, sometimes I'm sort of glad I (and a few other companies) have a corroborated log of where I've been at specific times.

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It's cool until a religious politician takes power and slowly starts stacking things against people from other religions and atheists. Your data reveals that you attend the wrong religious building or no building at all. A few years later you get a free train trip to a fun re-education camp.

Or an atheist government uses it to re-educate religious people?

That's fine when it is under your control. But, it isn't. And companies are using it for their benefit, and will avoid your defense, short of a court order.

Of course it’s not under my control, it’s on their servers. I don’t mind that they build a location API with the data. Why should this bother me?

If you think location is the only thing these companies are collecting, you're mistaken. The data is sold to unknown third parties and freely given to dangerous governments. There are any number of bad outcomes possible, though I admit many are not likely.

The point is that these folks are not on your team, will never be, and are potentially malicious to you and your family. Why support them?

I just watched long shot to understand your comment :) in the Netherlands

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