News - Facebook to launch location product

[HEXUS]

Soon you?ll be able to geo-tag your updates, but how will Facebook go about commercialising this new feature?

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[Lee H]

Yay...

so now we can see where people are and when they are out of their homes so they can get robbed easier.

it's all good implementing all this location tagging business, but they've not though out the security implecations as things like this will start be used for criminal purposes in the end.

[PeterStoba]

Yay...

so now we can see where people are and when they are out of their homes so they can get robbed easier.

it's all good implementing all this location tagging business, but they've not though out the security implecations as things like this will start be used for criminal purposes in the end.

Most people already post there every move any way, so it won't make much difference.

[razer121]

Most people already post there every move any way, so it won't make much difference.

a quote from a friends post

"getting out of shower then going to town"

anouther

"last night was great! whos going out tonight? were going to the exchange"

yes people these days are pretty darn stupid lol

[Mblaster]

I don't know who you have on your friends lists, but none of my friends will be robbing my house anytime soon...

[TheAnimus]

And you know that every friend you have, or 'data endpoint' is secure?

I mean if I was doing this I'd have a very simple trojan that went round collecting and collating all this stuff...

[PeterStoba]

I don't know who you have on your friends lists, but none of my friends will be robbing my house anytime soon...

Average facebook user is probably a teenager/student and won't have a clue that their privacy settings allow anybody to see their entire profile though.

[Mblaster]

And you know that every friend you have, or 'data endpoint' is secure?

I mean if I was doing this I'd have a very simple trojan that went round collecting and collating all this stuff...

I don't know anyone that has their full address listed on facebook, so if you didn't know the person already you'd need to get this from somewhere.

Also, if most users with loose enough privacy settings are teenagers/students then they'll most likely be living with parents or housemates so them being out is not very useful information. Basically, it isn't feasable.

[Stringent]

I wonder if they will enable this by default and not really tell anyone that its on?

TBH Geo tagging been available in Twitter for ages now!

[format]

Average facebook user is probably a teenager/student and won't have a clue that their privacy settings allow anybody to see their entire profile though.

Actually I'd bet that it's older users who are less computer savvy that are less aware of their facebook privacy.

[razer121]

Actually I'd bet that it's older users who are less computer savvy that are less aware of their facebook privacy.

i have to agree with this here comment.