Twitter looking to introduce geo-tagging on all messages

I personally have nothing to hide but I think this would be a bad idea. Graham Cluley from Sophos has raised some very interesting security points about the disadvantages of geo-tagging on every tweets done.
To list a few:

• Total lack of privacy
• Helping stalkers find their prays
• Letting the burglars know where you are
• ….

My advice would be to have it setup as disabled by default and warn users about the potential risks if they want to use this.  From the privacy point of view I think we have enough CCTV cameras pointed at us as it is.

To read Graham Cluley’s point of view go there: http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/05/28/locationbased-twitter-bad-security/

~ by dav1dfv on 28 May, 2009.