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Tuesday 5 November 2013

Nov.5

U3 Geography: Movement

Besides natural movements from gravity, air, water, heat and cold, 2 key movements today is the movement of People & Technology (the fact that our geographical movements are being electronically tracked for marketing purposes, that is, to sell us on products and services based on data collected about our demographics, daily habits, likes/interests; other examples of data collection include Facebook & Google Analytics) - see a recent story featured on Global News below:

http://globalnews.ca/news/906407/ios-7-frequent-locations-setting-raises-privacy-concerns-with-users-experts/


Another simple mental map on which you could track your movements, for example, to Vaughan Mills, Downsview Arena and Yorkdale Shopping Mall: