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Hi. Since you brought up privacy.. Where exactly does Foursquare gather its location data from for these enterprise reports? Is it exclusively from "checkins" on Foursquare apps, or does it include locations provided via lookups to the Foursquare API places database from various 3rd party apps?

I've always wondered how deep the data could be if it was just Foursquare checkins, given the decline in usage of the apps. Yet I only ever hear about "billions of checkins" as the source. Not billions of queries. It doesn't quite add up for me.

I kind of feel that if Foursquare is tracking user locations via apps that use its API, that should be more clearly stated. Is it? Thanks.