the event
zon?
in a competition seeking ‘innovative ideas
to reduce the threat from terrorist and
malicious use of explosives and weapons
in public spaces’.
Krowdthink’s venue-based
communication and social platform, the
rowd, can call on venue security staff ’s
assistance, who can track your location
in real time should an urgent situation
arise. “In high footfall spaces that are Wi-
Fi enabled it enables threat, event, venue
and safety information to be shared
via mobile devices, transforming ‘the
crowd’ into a virtual sensor’ to eff ectively
identify threats and easily respond via
alerts,” says evill.
esearch shows that on social media
there’s a lot of data that people are willing
to share, but location came up as the one
metric where people tend to draw the
line. As a social platform, we are maniacal
about data minimisation. Article 25 of
GD stresses minimising the data
held on people, and for us that’s a point
of innovation. Keeping someone’s data
history is incredibly exposing, but there
comes a time when informing someone
where you are becomes desirable. In this
scenario your whereabouts are roughly
communicated using our software, the
moment you decide that your location is
important.
Freeman’s digital development
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