Foursquare Adds Quick Glide Feature On iOS

I still cry "walled gardens" over these stories.

I don't want to actively tell someone where I am because its important to their business model

In the end I am ok with my phone tracking my every move, and I am ok sharing almost all that data openly - what I would like is a app that records everything, sends it to a "washing service" where I can specify and remove data I don't want to share (photos of my children in the bath, my third trip to the coffeehouse in one day) and then publish it for anonymised social benefits - oh and if four square wants it they pay me. And when my kids get an iPhone - scrub everything till they are old enough to choose their own settings.

So I can see a personal data curation cottage industry that keeps what I share, comment on, where I go on my agents servers and releases it to others for a fee.

Two things I see as necessary :

legal frameworks that make my data mine (a bit like bbc must get my permission for my likeness to appear on tv), even if it is collected by a third party. Then I get the right to sell it on or not, pace socially beneficial uses

Honesty will be a default. I am old enough that the little white lie is common and undetectable. But it gets harder to lie about "I am in heavy traffic" while still at the desk /pub / bed. Our kids will make use of this data pollution - but it will make a lot of actions much more honest - simply because the lie is so easily detectable.