{"id":15273,"date":"2014-10-07T12:06:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T12:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/gimbal-the-company-that-manufactures-the-beacons-2\/"},"modified":"2014-10-07T12:06:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T12:06:44","slug":"gimbal-the-company-that-manufactures-the-beacons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/gimbal-the-company-that-manufactures-the-beacons-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Gimbal, the company that manufactures the beacons, emphasizes that the beacons do not themselves collect any information. They are, however, a key element in a network that can, in fact, track smartphone users. In its current iteration, a Gimbal beacon requires a third-party app to trigger advertisements, and requires those apps to receive \u201copt-in\u201d permission from users, who must also have Bluetooth enabled. Gimbal\u2019s privacy policy says Gimbal-powered apps may collect your current location, the time of day you passed the beacon, and details about your device.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/josephbernstein\/new-york-city-to-advertising-contractor-take-down-secretly-i#drqh13\">New York City Kills Hidden Phone Booth Devices<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.iamdanw.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">iamdanw<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gimbal, the company that manufactures the beacons, emphasizes that the beacons do not themselves collect any information. They are, however, a key element in a network that can, in fact, track smartphone users. In its current iteration, a Gimbal beacon requires a third-party app to trigger advertisements, and requires those apps to receive \u201copt-in\u201d permission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3Yl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}