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| Industry | Home security |
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| Founder | Chris Chuter [1] |
| Headquarters | , U.S.A. |
Peeple is a technology company based in Austin, Texas. It is best known for its internet based peephole that allows users to see people outside their house using a mobile app. [2]
Peeple was founded by Chris Chuter. In 2015, the company won $150,000 at a competition in the United Kingdom for its internet-enabled peephole. [3]
The company has been confused with Peeple, a mobile application that allows users to rate other people based on their personalities, professionalism, and dating experience. [4] In September 2015, company founder Chris Chuter told Wired that his company began receiving negative feedback from people who believed his company was behind the mobile application. [3]
Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California, and a flagship service of the namesake company Facebook, Inc. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
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Kik Messenger, commonly called Kik, is a freeware instant messaging mobile app from the Canadian company Kik Interactive, available free of charge on iOS and Android operating systems. It uses a smartphone's data plan or Wi-Fi to transmit and receive messages, photos, videos, sketches, mobile web pages, and other content after users register a username. Kik is known for its features preserving users' anonymity, such as allowing users to register without the need to provide a telephone number or valid email address. However, the application does not employ end-to-end encryption, and the company also logs user IP addresses, which could be used to determine the user's ISP and approximate location. This information, as well as "reported" conversations are regularly surrendered upon request by law enforcement organizations, sometimes without the need for a court order.
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Peeple is a mobile application that allows people to leave recommendations for other people based on professional, personal, and romantic relationships. Initially described as a "Yelp for People", the original announcement in October 2015 drew criticism over concerns of harassment, and its creators launched a "watered-down" version of Peeple in March 2016. Many critics have noted the similarity of the application and China's upcoming Social Credit System to the "Nosedive" episode of the British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror as well as other fictional works about social media with themes of gender and obsession with image.
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