Happy New Year from Audacious Software! It’s been almost a year and a half since my last blog post when we were looking at the passive data disclosures deployed in the Fresh Comics app using Passive Data Kit. What’s been going on since then? In short, the answer is 64.7%.

In a prior blog post and in numerous in-person conversations, I’ve spoken about my goals for Passive Data Kit, the open source framework Audacious Software is producing to serve as the foundation for a new generation of sensor- and service-aware applications. Unlike similar frameworks, Passive Data Kit tries to balance the developer's need for passive data with the user's need to understand and control how that data is collected and used by third parties.

It's pretty amazing that it's been over three months since I updated the company weblog. The lack of updates is a good indication that Audacious Software has been quite busy during that time and there has not been much time available to pen updates. That said, here are a few things that have happened since the last post…