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Location Services Raise Privacy Concerns
megahurt writes "Location-based services are becoming more common, and the features they add to mobile devices can be useful and even fun. But the downside is that everyone who reads the posting will know the user isn't home. On top of that, some services, such as Foursquare, can be linked to Twitter feeds. Peter Eckersley, senior staff technologist, says there are many situations in which the location data that is kept could be misused. Many of the providers of services say in their privacy policies they will give up the data in cases where it is subpoenaed. That isn't always from law enforcement; sometimes the data can be used in civil lawsuits such as divorce cases."
A new study finds that location-broadcasting applications broadcast the location of the user.
Nothing to see here.
My other sig is clever.
True - but wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where we could have our cake and eat it too? Where there only was one side of the coin?
Perhaps if there was some addition to the law saying that this sort of digital information was useless in court, we'd be one step closer to creating that reality. That reality where the people to cake ratio is exactly 1:1. Where everyone's piece not only is a corner piece with lots of icing but also a part of the artwork so you get that sugary gelatin stuff too. Where the bottom is a nice firm cookie based and the inside is moist and soft, or ice-cream if you prefer. ... What were we talking about again?
Or better yet, pay some homeless guy $50 bucks to carry it on the bus all over the city.
The police will be at your door any minute now.
That might backfire if he's murdered in an alley and it turns out that you were following him around all day (according to your phone records).
You lend money to a bunch of pseudo-geek hipsters? What's your job, Loan Shark 2.0? Do you break their Twitter accounts if they don't pay up?
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