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it's a privacy issue. Users who enable the feature don't understand that are basically publishing thier latitude longitude online. Which can be resolved into a
by Nullslash 6y ago
it's a privacy issue. Users who enable the feature don't understand that are basically publishing thier latitude longitude online. Which can be resolved into a home address.
- krbzsq 6y agoBlanket stating that users don't understand is pretty dismissive and frankly quite patronising. I'm a big privacy advocate, so I don't personally like volunteering location info, but personally know lots of people who will happily do so for all sorts of reasons (e.g. seeing each other on snapchat maps), they understand what they're doing. Simple fact is, plenty of people just _don't care_ and that is their right to do so.
- dividedbyzero 6y agoI think most people (including myself) may not have a good understanding what nefarious things this could be used for exactly. I don't have a stalker, and I don't think the risk of a targeted burglary is all that high in my case, what else could someone do with this to harm me?
- abluecloud 6y agothe warning message tells them _exactly that_.
- ac29 6y agoThe message posted upthread (https://i.imgur.com/PDnMmQV.png https://i.imgur.com/PDnMmQV.png) definitely does not say it will publish your location/address. It says people will be able to view your "profile".
- cutemonster 6y agoAnd even if it had said "location" it'd been reasonable to interpret that as "approximate location, don't worry we have thought a bit about security", i think.
- anoncake 6y agoIf people don't understand that publishing their location makes their location public, that's on them.
- cutemonster 6y agoIt's reasonable to assume that "location" means "approximate location" and not "exact location".
- anoncake 6y agoThat's true.