ambient social networking

Using the location services in smartphones to identify people in the vicinity. With GPS and cellular location signaling built into the phone, an ambient social app can locate friends who happen to be in the neighborhood or alert users that friends are nearby, the latter raising serious privacy issues. See mobile positioning.

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