News - Facebook Places launches on iPhone

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Location ‘check in’ service unveiled in US but privacy concerns escalate.

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[miniyazz]

If I had a photo album stored online that I needed online but didn't want everyone to have access to, I wouldn't have to upload my personal photos for the world to see and then opt out of sharing them with everyone. Why does Facebook have to assume everyone wants to share everything with everyone, leaving users to turn off sharing after the (or at least some) damage has been done? That's what narks me about it. Doing it the other way round - no problem. Doing it this way round - problem.

[joel_spencer]

It's been a long time since I setup my account but whenever they've introduced new privacy controls they do tell you to set them up there and then, if people choose to ignore this then it is their fault. If you're busy and need reminding again so you can do it later then that should also be an option.

You'd be surprised how willing people are to knowingly sacrifice personal information, one of my friends uses that location thing as part of some meta game I think (go places often you become king of it or some rubbish) and I tell him that if I wanted to hunt him down it would be so easy.