Comments on: Google Wants to Stalk You and Help You Stalk Your Friends http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/02/04/google-wants-to-stalk-you-and-help-you-stalk-your-friends/ tech, science, news and social issues for geeks Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: edwinhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/02/04/google-wants-to-stalk-you-and-help-you-stalk-your-friends/#comment-134339 edwin Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:02:00 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=10257#comment-134339 the technology is already here.let us he we can play with it.lets learn its rules. the technology is already here.let us he we can play with it.lets learn its rules.

]]> By: edwinhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/02/04/google-wants-to-stalk-you-and-help-you-stalk-your-friends/#comment-270554 edwin Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:02:00 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=10257#comment-270554 the technology is already here.let us he we can play with it.lets learn its rules. the technology is already here.let us he we can play with it.lets learn its rules.

]]> By: Foot In Mouthhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/02/04/google-wants-to-stalk-you-and-help-you-stalk-your-friends/#comment-133377 Foot In Mouth Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:26:00 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=10257#comment-133377 I agree Doug, This type of application just plain creeps me out. If our largest corporations are pushing out the development of these supersersonalized applications, that know who you are where you are and what you are doing 24 hours a day, then there is no such thing as privacy. Call me old school, but I don't think it's a far stretch at all to say that these records of where you were listed in latitude could be subpoenaed. Imagine if someone took your cell phone or cloned your ID, and commited a crime! Of course, that's a more paranoid assumption, but I don't think we should give up our inherent annonymity and privacy for a social network! Viva Ludite 2.0 ! I agree Doug,

This type of application just plain creeps me out. If our largest corporations are pushing out the development of these supersersonalized applications, that know who you are where you are and what you are doing 24 hours a day, then there is no such thing as privacy. Call me old school, but I don't think it's a far stretch at all to say that these records of where you were listed in latitude could be subpoenaed. Imagine if someone took your cell phone or cloned your ID, and commited a crime!

Of course, that's a more paranoid assumption, but I don't think we should give up our inherent annonymity and privacy for a social network! Viva Ludite 2.0 !

]]> By: Foot In Mouthhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/02/04/google-wants-to-stalk-you-and-help-you-stalk-your-friends/#comment-270553 Foot In Mouth Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:26:00 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=10257#comment-270553 I agree Doug,This type of application just plain creeps me out. If our largest corporations are pushing out the development of these supersersonalized applications, that know who you are where you are and what you are doing 24 hours a day, then there is no such thing as privacy. Call me old school, but I don't think it's a far stretch at all to say that these records of where you were listed in latitude could be subpoenaed. Imagine if someone took your cell phone or cloned your ID, and commited a crime! Of course, that's a more paranoid assumption, but I don't think we should give up our inherent annonymity and privacy for a social network! Viva Ludite 2.0 ! I agree Doug,

This type of application just plain creeps me out. If our largest corporations are pushing out the development of these supersersonalized applications, that know who you are where you are and what you are doing 24 hours a day, then there is no such thing as privacy. Call me old school, but I don’t think it’s a far stretch at all to say that these records of where you were listed in latitude could be subpoenaed. Imagine if someone took your cell phone or cloned your ID, and commited a crime!
Of course, that’s a more paranoid assumption, but I don’t think we should give up our inherent annonymity and privacy for a social network! Viva Ludite 2.0 !

]]> By: Doug Gaffhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/02/04/google-wants-to-stalk-you-and-help-you-stalk-your-friends/#comment-133192 Doug Gaff Wed, 04 Feb 2009 18:02:00 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=10257#comment-133192 My first thought when I saw this was, "wow, think of all the illegal activities that could be facilitated with such a service." Here's a few: drug dealer networks, prostitution rings, stalking. Then there's the unethical stuff: the ability track your significant other or your teenage kids, assuming you're tech-savvy enough to hide the app on their phone after it's enabled. Then there's government access to this...something they can probably already do with cell tower triangulation if you don't have GPS. Practically speaking, this will drain my Blackberry battery faster, since I suspect it will turn the GPS radio on all the time if I let it. Still I can't resist the urge to try it out... My first thought when I saw this was, "wow, think of all the illegal activities that could be facilitated with such a service." Here's a few: drug dealer networks, prostitution rings, stalking. Then there's the unethical stuff: the ability track your significant other or your teenage kids, assuming you're tech-savvy enough to hide the app on their phone after it's enabled. Then there's government access to this…something they can probably already do with cell tower triangulation if you don't have GPS. Practically speaking, this will drain my Blackberry battery faster, since I suspect it will turn the GPS radio on all the time if I let it.

Still I can't resist the urge to try it out…

]]> By: Doug Gaffhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/02/04/google-wants-to-stalk-you-and-help-you-stalk-your-friends/#comment-270552 Doug Gaff Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:02:00 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=10257#comment-270552 My first thought when I saw this was, "wow, think of all the illegal activities that could be facilitated with such a service." Here's a few: drug dealer networks, prostitution rings, stalking. Then there's the unethical stuff: the ability track your significant other or your teenage kids, assuming you're tech-savvy enough to hide the app on their phone after it's enabled. Then there's government access to this...something they can probably already do with cell tower triangulation if you don't have GPS. Practically speaking, this will drain my Blackberry battery faster, since I suspect it will turn the GPS radio on all the time if I let it.Still I can't resist the urge to try it out... My first thought when I saw this was, “wow, think of all the illegal activities that could be facilitated with such a service.” Here’s a few: drug dealer networks, prostitution rings, stalking. Then there’s the unethical stuff: the ability track your significant other or your teenage kids, assuming you’re tech-savvy enough to hide the app on their phone after it’s enabled. Then there’s government access to this…something they can probably already do with cell tower triangulation if you don’t have GPS. Practically speaking, this will drain my Blackberry battery faster, since I suspect it will turn the GPS radio on all the time if I let it.

Still I can’t resist the urge to try it out…

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