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Title: Google Latitude released, share your location on the go Post by: Alex on February 04, 2009, 07:31:06 PM Google Latitude released, share your location on the go
Google has announced that on Wednesday it will expand its current service on Google Maps to track individual user's locations. The feature will allow SmartPhone users to share their locations with others to track user's last location, and help locate each other. With such a feature, privacy concerns are at risk of helping predators or unwanted people finding out a users location. To combat such issues, Google has implemented a feature where users need to manually turn the tracking feature on, while making it easy to limit access, or disable the service. Google promises not to retain any user's movements, but the store the last location by the user on Google's computers. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/MXk91I_NqUw/google-latitude-released-share-your-location-on-the-go |