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Is Google’s new tracking service a threat to privacy?

By Richard Huzzey | Mon 9th March 2009 - 8:14 pm

Lib Dem MPs Chris Huhne and Tom Brake have tabled some concerns regarding Google’s new ‘Latitude’ service to track the locations of mobile phones registered with their website. You can read more here.

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2 Comments

Ryan Cullen 9th Mar '09 - 8:29pm

I thought our MPs were more clued on about tech.
Have they even tried tracking someone? For your location to be update the app needs to be running, so as soon as you switch the phone off and switch it back on the app is no longer running. Also most phones can’t run much, so doing something like sending a text or surfing the web will close Google Maps.
Guido Fawkes 10th Mar '09 - 4:26pm

Bizarre. Do they worry about people voluntarily of their own free will doing other things?

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