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comment by rapczar
rapczar  ·  3452 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New Wi-Fi technology will make phones ‘aware’ of their surroundings - Fortune

I was thinking that law enforcement would love this new technology. Especially since, Apps will probably "hamfistedly" force you to activate Wi-Fi Aware or give it access if you want to use the App - which we'll probably have limited control over what information is shared across the Wi-Fi Aware network.

I think that the best application for this would be meshnetworks like Fire Chat, or even as a replacement for the cell network in the case it goes down where a Wi-Fi Aware phone could be connected at the edge and pass data through the whole network.