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Caution: Should You Share Your Location on Facebook?

30

Aug

2011

Facebook recently rolled out a number of changes to the social networking site. One of the changes eliminates the concept of Facebook Places, but instead incorporates location-aware updates at virtually every level of Facebook. You might want to think twice, though, before broadcasting your location to the anonymous masses online. Facebook has had a Foursquare-like […]

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Facebook Scraps Places and Implements “Location Tagging” Instead

24

Aug

2011

In a recent announcement made by Facebook, it was revealed that their “Places” feature would be phased out and replaced with a different feature with the same function. A feature called ‘location tagging’. It was a very surprising announcement, considering that it has only been a few months since the Places feature was implemented.By all […]

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Apple, Google to face lawmakers in privacy tussle

09

May

2011

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tech companies such as Apple and Google are hoping the tracks of millions of mobile device users will lead to billions of dollars in revenue.But where they see dollar signs, lawmakers see red flags.The revelation last month that Apple’s iPhones collected location data and stored it for up to a year — […]

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