In an article that appears in the technology section, Bits, on The New York Times web site titled, "Girls Around Me: An App Takes Creepy to a New Level" by Nick Bilton, the writer describes a mobile smart phone application called, Woman Around Me, that allows men (or woman) to pinpoint a woman's location, then find her on Facebook and make a connection. After reading this article, I'm thinking, maybe someone should create an application for gals and call it, Stalkers Around Me, so woman can bundle applications and find out the location and the identity of predators in the area. ~Andrew
(image appears with article at New York Times web site)
Girls Around Me: An App Takes Creepy to a New Level by Nick Bilton
Bilton goes on to say, "Girls Around Me uses Foursquare, the location-based mobile service, to determine your location. It then scans for women in the area who have recently checked-in on the service. Once you identify a woman you’d like to talk to, one that inevitably has no idea you’re snooping on her, you can connect to her through Facebook, see her full name, profile photos and send her a message."
In his article, Invasion of the Cookie Monsters, author Jack Shafer
writes, "I doubt that few who use the Web ever thought they were signing
up for a technology whose surreptitious data-gathering can hone in on a
user's age, ZIP code, level of education, health data, gender,
estimated income, marital status, real estate situation, and more, as
the Journal reports."
Shafer refers to a media series (which I have linked below) when he writes, "The invasive use of these technologies, documented brilliantly in an ongoing Wall Street Journal series titled, "What They Know," allows data miners to collect reams of personal information about you." You should check this out. At this site you can learn about privacy issues like, illegal iPhone tracking, the FBI's secret unauthorized probes in to google accounts, how consumer website adjust pricing according to your personal information, the tracking of your cars license plates, and more.
(The Wall Street Journal series, "What They Know")
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