Why location-aware lifestreaming spooks me
I ran across this site, foursquare. That link is to an anonymous (to me) user who volunteers exactly when and where he is, at any and many times. Specific times and addresses, and all of this is completely public. It is creepy enough knowing the founder of Facebook makes breathless declarations about how (allegedly) outmoded privacy is, and how easily people could be burglarized as a result of tweeting about their vacation (or updating their status in any of a variety of social media).
WARNING: very foul culture exposed in the first link to follow – avoid if you’d rather not know.
The article at the first of that group of links explains how easily you can locate any stranger’s house by connecting, as an example, geotags from a flikr account to an individual. But this foursquare service provides all that in one glance, in addition to time information in one glance, for anyone to look up. Any burglar (or worse) who wants to find a target doesn’t even need their name. Time and location is enough.
mindlesstweeter plane landed! did u see my tweets about my new expensive electronics? pls burglarize me!
goods4me @mindlesstweeter: in ur house raiding ur expensive electronics! u cannot find me my accnt is behind anonymus proxy hahaha
