Exposition Augmented Reality Virtual Reality in Social Networking - ISIT 2014
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David Crary AP October 6, 2014, 11:01 am
For gay men in the dozens of countries that criminalise their sex lives, social networking can be a blessing or a curse.
High-tech dating apps and social media have enabled countless men to expand their circles of friends and lovers in settings that are hostile to any overt trace of homosexuality. Yet the same technology that they gratefully embrace can expose them to the risk of blackmail, arrest and violence.
In one chilling case earlier in 2014 in Pakistan, police arrested a paramedic on suspicion of killing three men he had met via the gay social network Manjam, which is based in London but has many users in Asia and the Middle East. The suspect told police he considered homosexuality to be evil.
More recently, bloggers and activists raised concerns about how the popular dating app Grindr could be used to pinpoint a user's exact location - even a user living where gay sex is outlawed. After complaints mounted, Grindr in September announced steps to reduce the risks for users in countries with a record of anti-gay violence - including Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Liberia, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
And during the past couple of weeks, Grindr has posted a warning to its users in Egypt that police - as part of an ongoing crackdown on gays - "may be posing as LGBT to entrap you". The warning urged users to be careful when arranging meetings with strangers.
Grindr's chief executive, Joel Simkhai, says his Los Angeles-based company strives to maximise security and privacy for all its users, yet he cautions that governments hostile to gays can muster powerful surveillance resources.
"They have a lot of control and smarts on their side," he said. "We try to use the latest technologies on our end, but so do they, so this tension will continue.
"If your security is a big issue for you," he added, "a location-based service might not be the best option".
The potential perils of social networking have attracted the attention of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, a New York-based watchdog group.
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Oliver Smith Oct 5 2014 at 11:51 PM
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A new travel website is promising guests discounts on hotel rooms depending on how large their social media following is.
Visitors to the website Hotelied are invited to provide it with access to up to five of their social networking accounts Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Linkedin and Instagram.
They can then search for hotel rooms in five destinations (New York, Los Angles, Miami, Portland and Tel Aviv) and are presented with a variety of options, with discounts that supposedly correspond with their social media clout.
The idea is that those with a large number of friends and followers "tastemakers" is how Hotelied describes them are more likely to provide free publicity for the hotels and encourage others to stay.
The website explains: "Based on its specific business needs, a hotel may be targeting small groups, guests who work in specific industries such as fashion, entertainment, business, or education, frequent travellers, loyal travellers, and more. In addition, a hotel may want to increase their social media interaction with guests, thus searching for guests with high social influence and a strong digital following."
I searched for a hotel room in New York for a two-night stay from November 21, and with a reasonable number of Twitter followers (1,800 or so), I was offered a discount of 20 per cent at the Dream Downtown hotel ($US276 ($AU318) a night, instead of $345 ($AU397)). The discount would seem to be valid when I approached the hotel directly, the cheapest available rate for the same period was indeed $US345 a night.
My social media following earned me discounts of up to 40 per cent on other hotels, such as the Metropolitan by COMO in Miami. The maximum discount available to all users is 50 per cent.
Members of six hotel loyalty programmes (Accor, Hyatt, Hilton, IHG, Marriott and Starwood) and four airline reward schemes (BA, TrueBlue, Lufthansa and Virgin) are also invited to link those accounts to Hotelied, to further boost their profile.
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