Should phones have something that shows your profile to people in the proximity?

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Should phones have something that shows your profile to people in the proximity? - Lemmy

The whole idea is a privacy minefield, so it would have to be very carefully designed and implemented, of course making it opt-in. But still, should we even pursue this idea? So that, for example, even if I met someone just briefly, they can still later see the contact information that I am willing to provide. Wouldn’t that make it much easier to connect with people who live close to you? Are there any relevant projects or ideas that already exist?

Something like Google’s Exposure Notification API but for memes… All the controversy but none of the morbidity…
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