I don't understand what's scary about this. Seems like common sense - if you use your regular email address or name for these services, and make your locations available to the public, duh, these are accessible by anyone! Can someone use them to profile you, sure! Will someone do this to try to sell you something? Maybe. The article doesn't mention anything really sinister to me except when it references Minority Report, which is science FICTION. You can dream up all kinds of Orwellian ways this info can be used, but the same thing can be said for credit card transactions. Generally I think you can be paranoid about anything and if you are, then just get off the Internet, don't use bank accounts, use cash for everything, don't own any property that requires some kind of license or deed, etc., etc. Either that, or move to a developing country where the infrastructure is what it was here 50-75 years ago (except for cell phones). If you don't want people to know you went to X nightclub because that might somehow endanger you in some way or infringe on your privacy, well, don't check in! Checking in is the equivelent of telling lots of people you went somewhere. Even with safeguards, there's no guarantee that those "friends" might not let others know whom you don't want to know. This is just another example (to me) of people blaming technology for something that can happen even without it. Sure, it requires you to actually THINK about what you are posting/revealing and what the consequence might be, but again, I fail to see how anything here is surprising or scary.
Levi Wallach blog: http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.com tweet me @dvdmon (http://twitter.com/dvdmon) On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Jim Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > Divorce or not, I found this very interesting/scary. Just goes to show you > gotta' be careful with location sharing etc! > > Here's a website I think you'll like: Foursquare Becomes Great Predictor Of > Divorce > > Jim > (Via Palm Pre) > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
