August 2, 2015
Popular times
Restaurants or commercial brands, from now on you will always know when it is better to go there. Indeed, Google has just announced the upcoming implementation (in terms that remain to be defined) of a feature called “Popular Times” indicating the peak times of stores. This is obviously not data retrieved in real time but statistical data retrieved over time.
Is it relevant to have such a functionality to discover the busy times of the stores around us? Not sure, especially since the question of the use of our personal data risks re-emerging at the same time as the availability of this new feature….
A suivre.
Source: [Google – Do you ever find yourself trying to avoid long lines or wondering when is the…](https://plus.google.com/+google/posts/QY1c97V25Tz)
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