A new app has started popping up on my phone. When I check the time and weather in the morning, I also get a note about the traffic and an estimate of driving time to work. As far as I remember, I have not asked for such information, or downloaded an app for it. Nor have I told my phone, in any way I recall, where I work. I understand that my phone travels to work with me, and home, too. I guess it is tracking my movements in ways I didn't expect.
So far, I have ignored the app. I don't adjust my driving route or schedule for leaving one place or the other. I just close the message, and get on with things. I do know that my phone knows, though. It knows where I work, and how I get there, and the traffic conditions at the moment. It doesn't seem to know when I will be driving with my wife, stopping off at her work before driving to mine, though. And it hasn't caught on that I don't immediately drive to work when I wake up. At least, it hasn't given any indication that it knows those things. I mean, when I drive my wife to work first, my travel time will be longer, and that has not yet been reflected in the travel time estimates.
But if I write about this in a blog no one reads, will the data gods pick up on it? I guess I'll see.
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