Google Latitude is a new feature for Google Maps for and on your mobile device. Officials say users can take advantage of the service privacy settings to limit who can see them, and can determine when to turn the service on and off. You can see the approximate location of your friends and loved ones who have decided to share their location with you. Google latitude is essentially a gps tracker that can be added to any cell phone.
The sensitivity of location data can violate privacy. However, with this you not only control exactly who gets to see your location, but you also decide the location that they see. Everything is under your control and, of course, you can sign out of Latitude at any time.While people may think the government may use this to be able to track us however; the truth is they already do track in the mean of some way. I personally think it is reasonable for governments to do. The only concern is that someone is able to hack into system and use it for other bad things.
Not being able to delete accounts caused many problems when people had embarrassing information on facebook. Facebook can also legally bind you for incriminating information. Facebook gets money by aquiring information about it’s users and displaying adds to that may interest them. Facebook sells account information for money and personally I believe that this is not fair. However, from the perspective that facebook is free, it is possible for the facebook workers to do this.
Whether posted on another site, saved on someone’s offline WebPages, or stored on a flash or hard drive, those images will haunt the user for life. Being able to add pictures from the Google Latitude, private pictures are also shown through the network.
I think that the employers could use this device as a source to track workers, however, they should not do this. As a employer, I understand that they want to find out about who they want to hire so they look for those future-to-be-hired people. They can and most will but people can change and by using the online worker’s side, I think that employers cannot fully determine what that person is capable of.
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