Recently, the social media giant Facebook filed a few
controversial patents. They are called controversial because rather
than being user-friendly the new patents filed could only be an aid
to the revenues of the company itself. The latest patent is the one
which can predict your destination before you reach it yourself.
This patent has been deemed 'ill-timed' by some since there
are still major concerns about the security of the user information
and the use of meta-data by the company and this patent only adds
to it. The patent is titled 'offline trajectories' and
filed with the USPTO on 4th December, 2018. The abstract of the
patent reads as under:
"In one embodiment, a method includes determining a current
location of a user based on location data received from a client
device; and calculating a transition probability of the user
transitioning, within a predetermined time window, from the current
location to each of a number of candidate geographic locations.
