On 16 July 2010 18:50, Melvin Carvalho <[email protected]> wrote: > Two separate studies were conducted this week that suggest that social > network and geolocation users are torn right down the middle when it comes > to issues of privacy. Both studies showed that for about half of the > respondents, privacy is their number one concern.
In my opinion geolocation is potentially quite dangerous if used in public social networks. If you do a search for terms such as "going out", "leaving the house" or "won't be back until" on Twitter and these messages are also geolocated then that provides useful information to criminals who might want to carry out robberies. Organized crime gangs could easily data mine this on an industrial scale, and use it to very efficiently target their operations. In many cases people may be disclosing information about themselves which to them seems harmless, but could easily be exploited by those with malevolent intentions.
