- From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:38:36 -0400
- To: "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
- Cc: Edd Dumbill <edd@usefulinc.com>
I have seen this blog post of Edd Dumbill, and thought:
A reciprocity of knowledge doesn't remove the power of being able to abuse the knowledge. Not everyone is equal with the same knowledge.
The blog post:
In eddology • by edd dumbill, I switched on…
At http://eddology.com/post/4528170109/latitude-tracking
I switched on the location history feature of
Google Latitude on my Android phone. Not only do I
get this astonishingly detailed timeline (this is
one hour of errand-running in Sunday) but I can
hit the “play” button and watch my trail acted
out.
This might seem creepy, until you realize your
phone company and law enforcement agencies have
access to this data whenever they want. So it’s
only fair I should have access
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Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
Developer Relations & Tools, Opera Software
Received on Monday, 11 April 2011 16:39:08 UTC