Brian J Goggin wrote... >On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:24:04 +0000, Martin Clark ><[email protected]> wrote: > >>Or perhaps I should ask why would anyone be worried about Them knowing >>where they are or where they've been? > >Let us suppose that, some day, in a fit of rage, you kick a cat. > >Many years later, British Waterways announces its intention to close >the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. There is a protest, in which you take >an active part, standing silently with a placard but also helping to >provide press briefings blaming the government for underfunding BW. > >The following weekend, the News of the World has three-inch headlines >"Cat-kicking beast leads canal protest". Naturally, the NotW won't >have researched that for itself: it will have received an >unattributable briefing from usually reliable sources. There may not >be anything illegal about kicking a cat, but both you and the HNC >campaign will be damaged, with attention distracted from the campaign >to your vain attempts to defend yourself, given that CCTV images have >somehow become available to the press. > >Later would-be protesters will be deterred. > Yes, I see what you are saying, Brian, but I don't see how that could result from Google knowing where you (or your mobile phone) was on a particular day. The scenario you describe could in theory happen now without that. -- Martin Clark
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