Wednesday, February 17, 2010

This is a must read!!!! Geolocation dangers

with the rush and buzz this year to knowing where you are - this is a real danger - mashable.com/2010/02/17/pleaserobme/

what do you think?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

We were just talking about this at the panel on Social Media - we all agreed. Turn off geotagging unless you're using it for something useful.

I even have it turned off on my iPhone.

docwho2100 said...

I agree at this point - even as I teach and work with GIS - there are great way i could see it used, depending on the level of accuracy - I am doing a ecologic study and so not have a lot of funding (ahhh grad school days) - I send a tweet at every location - the geolocation info on and then i can pull it into google maps through a nifty app and make a very awesome map - with out spending tons of money on high end GIS/mapping - but providing info free to stalkers - not so keen on that