See where your friends are with Google Latitude

Re:See where your friends are with Google Latitude by almost on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @05:10AM (#465533)

This kind of stuff makes me a little uncomfortable. I can imagine someone being in a situation (abusive relationship maybe?) where they are compelled to share this information. Even under normal circumstances it seems a little creepy, but maybe that's just me.

Not saying it's wrong to provide the service or anything like that, just wondering about how it could effect things.

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Re:See where your friends are with Google Latitude by gravitycop on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @05:34AM (#465558)

I can imagine someone being in a situation (abusive relationship maybe?) where they are compelled to share this information.

Did you see this part?:

Instead of having your approximate location detected and shared automatically, you can manually set your location for elsewhere

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Re:See where your friends are with Google Latitude by almost on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @08:37AM (#465701)

No, I didn't. And that kind of eliminates those concerns a bit.

Apologies for my lack of reading-all-the-way-throughness

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Re:See where your friends are with Google Latitude by snprbob86 on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @05:23AM (#465547)

Why not include a cloaking/misdirection feature?

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Re:See where your friends are with Google Latitude by alexandros on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @05:31AM (#465555)

I believe I read something about manual entry of location

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Re:See where your friends are with Google Latitude by snprbob86 on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @05:48AM (#465569)

Ah yes. Clearly I need to work on my skimming skills :-)

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