Google is promising that its new location-reporting service Latitude, which lets you broadcast where you are to your friends, will have a memory leak and won’t remember anything.
That’s a feature, not a bug. The intention is to make sure Latitude doesn’t become an honeypot for cops wanting to be able to easily find out where you have been or even say the names of everyone who attended, or was near, a political protest.
The policy, created in consultation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, puts Latitude on equal privacy footing with Loopt, a popular friend-finding service that predates Latitude. Both services now overwrite your previous location with your new location, and don’t keep logs.
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March 6, 2009 at 4:03 am
Now they need to do it in CHINA!!!
March 8, 2009 at 9:46 pm
I really don’t think I am every going to get over my love/hate relationship with Google. I guess it is more fear/admiration, though..