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Well, I hope this doesn't surprise anyone. I'm running under the assumption that people who use Foursquare and other such geolocation services are fully aware t

Well, I hope this doesn't surprise anyone. I'm running under the assumption that people who use Foursquare and other such geolocation services are fully aware that they can be used to find out where they've been. If that assumption is false, I think I'm going to become a hermit.

Animus7 16y ago
Well, it does other stuff like mine pictures for meta tags, the privacy implications of which wouldn't be obvious to a non-techie.
- heyitsnick 16y ago
  And I doubt most people realise; Twitters tweet location * Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device [side note: is this feature 'enabled' by default on some mobile clients?] * Place (geographical name) derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates using geonames.com * Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. The less accurate source, a corner of the bounding box is selected randomly.
  - eli 16y ago
    is this feature 'enabled' by default on some mobile clients? Pretty sure it's disabled by default on the official android client, but I'm sure somewhere there's some client that has it always on.
- thascales 16y ago
  Ah, you're quite right. Then maybe this will bring broader attention to their implications.
  - sasvari 16y ago
    which is a supremely optimistic assessment :-)
    - thascales 16y ago
      Well, Firesheep got an NYT article, who knows! :)
      - ilektrojohn 16y ago
        It has gotten some attention from mainstream media already , and that's nice imho. People should get "scared" and aware . http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/smartphone-apps-tracking-keeping-tabs-past-lovers-people/story?id=13022144 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/smartphone-apps-tracking-ke... http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/03/11/05 http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/03/11/05
      - sasvari 16y ago
        although I share your hope that people would think more about the implications of their online actions, I'm way more pessimistic even if this is covered in popular main stream media. the numer of people really thinking about such things out of the very few actually reading this in the media, I sadly suppose, is/would be insignificantly low.

Animus7 16y ago

Well, it does other stuff like mine pictures for meta tags, the privacy implications of which wouldn't be obvious to a non-techie.

heyitsnick 16y ago
And I doubt most people realise; Twitters tweet location * Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device [side note: is this feature 'enabled' by default on some mobile clients?] * Place (geographical name) derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates using geonames.com * Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. The less accurate source, a corner of the bounding box is selected randomly.
- eli 16y ago
  is this feature 'enabled' by default on some mobile clients? Pretty sure it's disabled by default on the official android client, but I'm sure somewhere there's some client that has it always on.
thascales 16y ago
Ah, you're quite right. Then maybe this will bring broader attention to their implications.
- sasvari 16y ago
  which is a supremely optimistic assessment :-)
  - thascales 16y ago
    Well, Firesheep got an NYT article, who knows! :)
    - ilektrojohn 16y ago
      It has gotten some attention from mainstream media already , and that's nice imho. People should get "scared" and aware . http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/smartphone-apps-tracking-keeping-tabs-past-lovers-people/story?id=13022144 http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/smartphone-apps-tracking-ke... http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/03/11/05 http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/03/11/05
    - sasvari 16y ago
      although I share your hope that people would think more about the implications of their online actions, I'm way more pessimistic even if this is covered in popular main stream media. the numer of people really thinking about such things out of the very few actually reading this in the media, I sadly suppose, is/would be insignificantly low.