In a message dated 05/02/2009 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Surely - the only way google can know your whereabouts is if you tell it. Or perhaps I am missing something !
The perceived problem is that people are being invited to volunteer to allow their mobile phones to be tracked. At the moment the idea is that you will only allow your friends to see where you are. But experience has shown that all 'good ideas' are fine at the beginning but very soon afterwards other people (including government agencies) take the innocently implemented concept to a deeper and more sinister depth. The fact that you have signed up means that information about where you are at any one time is being collected whether or not your friends are trying to find you at the time - and methods could be used to get the organisation gathering the information to divulge it to those other than the friends you have authorised. Do you want to be tracked by Big Brother, regardless of how blameless your normal lifestyle may be? DaveD [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
