Web comic xkcd’s take on Google Latitude’s privacy implications is … about what you’d expect. And as succinct an explanation as there will likely ever be of why location services will probably never take off.
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On the contrary, I think Location Based Services will continue to grow in popularity, especially among young people. Having lived with computers and the internet all their lives, young people don’t have the same “Big Brother” fears their parents do.
Most young people post some of the most intimate details of their lives on their Facebook page. They don’t have the same privacy concerns as the rest of us.
June 13, 2009 at 3:09 PM