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Google Maps To Add 'Friend' GPS Tracking
Henway writes "Google is adding the option to Google Maps to
place your whereabouts either via cell phone towers or GPS. Think 'locator beacon.' Paraphrased: This would be good for people wanting to let their friends know where they are or for parents wanting to know where their children are at all times."
Sorry, I already have this. I just log into my bank account's website, look at the recent charges, and that tells me where my wife is.
I can explanate how to administrate your network. You must configurate and segmentate it, so it can computate.
Oh man, I hope my girlfriend gets on this! It will make it SO much easier to track her. I am so sick of hiding in the bushes across the street from her house for three hours just to find out she wasn't even home! And this is going to save me a fortune on text messages...I won't need to text her every 3 minutes asking where she is if I have Google Maps to tell me!
Seriously, this is going to revolutionize our relationship. I know we're going to be so happy with this new tracking technology! The restraining order says no, but your Google Maps icon says yes!
Don't kid yourself. The women who know where their men are are called widows.
when I get a phone call or text message from my wife, I have to drive back to work before answering it and giving her my location? Awesome. The bar won't be happy :-)
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling a pig in the mud. After a while, you realize the engineer enjoys it.
As long as my wife doesn't use it to track my girlfriend. Then I'd be really f00ked.
drawing smiley on google maps with my friends and our GPS
Who needs friend tracking? What we need is Foe Tracking (tm).
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
Can I have my location copywritten? I want NO ONE to have access or the right to use my location in any manner without my explicit approval. Feds and local law enforcement included.
"Copywritten" is the past participle of "copywrite", a verb meaning to compose text for an advertisement. This has nothing to do with "copyright", a verb meaning to secure exclusive rights in a work of authorship. Besides, your location isn't a work of authorship, so you can't copyright it either.
That said, local privacy law may give you some rights to exclude use of your location. Case law in the United States, for one, recognizes privacy rights based on the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. But still, based only on the text of the article, I would guess that the subject (or possibly the minor subject's parent) has to opt in before the subject gets tracked: "Google is doing its best to avoid a backlash by requiring each user to manually turn on the tracking software and making it easy to turn off or limit access to the service."
Current location:
Your mom.
No guys! This is GOOGLE! It's new and innovative!!
Current location:
Your mom.
Yep! Google confirms it. Since my mother is 60, I appreciate you paying attention to her. And even though she considers you to be only a small appetizer, you do keep her from calling me for about 3 minutes.
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I doubt my parents would have been happy to discover I was in the Downtowner buying cigarettes instead of third period social studies. . .
What?
And Heroes!
There is alot of people who will just love this. We all know the type. They are the same type who change their facebook status 50 times a day, and twitter about every stupid thing they do. The ones that think everyone cares they are catching a bus to the grocery store, or getting off said bus, or debating what type of juice to buy at grocery store, or almost done shopping at grocery store or ... no I still don't fucking care.
Alot of people don't want privacy, they want the opposite, and they will love this.
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"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a mailbox here."
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...it could just be that Google can see the increase hits inherent in this plan, and therefore the increased ad revenue.
And if they happen to deliver an ad (for 50 cents off, mayhap) to you for the doughnut shop you are walking past, well that's just frosting (or glaze... or SPRINKLES, ahhhhh) on the cake of life.
Really, if some ominous "they" want to track you then "they" already know your banking info and attendant RFID signatures, vehicle profile and numbers, list of known or possible associates, etc..
If you were THAT big a question mark to "them", "they" would already be at your d
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