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Om Malik and Niall Kennedy’s latest podsession deals with geolocative services provided via free WiFi like the stuff Google wants to do, starting in San Francisco. Malik has concerns over privacy — free WiFi may mean that not only can companies and government entitites know who you are, they can know where you are as well, due to the GPS services that are increasingly layered atop wireless broadband as well as cellular phone networks. Geolocation over WiFi should definitely add capabilities of various sorts, but what are we giving up in terms of privacy, security and the costs (in terms of targeted advertising getting pushed at the user, among other things) of access? Grab the podcast here.