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Walle: Unacast rejects location data requests for political campaigns
“And we have, ah, we have kind of a lot of cases that we don't do. For instance, political campaigns.”
Thomas Walle Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 9:10 The Power of Location Data // Thomas Walle, Unacast (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Disclosure
Walle: Unacast's anonymized dataset covers roughly 10% of the US population
“So we spent like four years in building up a data set to, yeah, roughly 10% of the U.S. Population, so it's an anonymized data set, and that's the basis of all the insights that we can build.”
Thomas Walle Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 20:09 The Power of Location Data // Thomas Walle, Unacast (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Disclosure
Walle: Unacast entered Europe during GDPR rollout while others fled
“We went into Europe when everybody fled Europe because we wanted to be GDPR compliant, and we have figured out a way to maneuver that space.”
Thomas Walle Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 8:25 The Power of Location Data // Thomas Walle, Unacast (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Walle: No current location tech can accurately scale vertical floor tracking
“We can't. No, it's, there's no technology today that's sufficiently accurate and scalable to understand yeah, what floors you are in certain buildings.”
Thomas Walle Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 18:58 The Power of Location Data // Thomas Walle, Unacast (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Contradicted
Walle: Unacast location data is used during California wildfires to track evacuations
“Our data is being used to understand are people like trapped inside certain places because we can deliver data pretty real in real time, but also when people evacuate.”
Thomas Walle Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 13:52 The Power of Location Data // Thomas Walle, Unacast (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Disclosure
Unacast has raised $30 million with engineering team in Oslo
“Roughly 40 people in Norway and Oslo, so our engineering and data scientist team is based out of Oslo, and we raised thirty million to date”
Thomas Walle Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 1:12 The Power of Location Data // Thomas Walle, Unacast (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
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