Comments on: Google Offers "Latitude" To Track People

New, Free Software Enables You To Keep Tabs On Others' Whereabouts, And Vice Versa, Using Cell Phones, Says Natali Del Conte

[gebcsc]

Yes.. you can opt out.. well at least until the company you work for tells you, you must carry your work cell phone with you 24/7 and you must have this enabled.. so they can tell where you are 24/7, and of course there aren''t any hacks out there so people can hack you on and watch where you are while they clean out your house.. Legal access and "Big Brother" types would be the least of your problems.

[sashenka1]

I want everyone to know where I am. I have a little something for many of them depending on the ages and sexual prowess.

[mrsmith2050]

The name of the company should tell you what they want to do to you.."Google", no end to the things we will do to you. No conspiracy theorist but this is a company whose sole intent is to dominate infoprmation. They are even getting into digitizing medical records. What''s to stop them from opening any information that passes through them to Government.

[ronpadz]

To all of you paranoids who think this is the end of privacy I urge you to read the article. This is opt-in technology to be shared with only those you have designated as being privileged to see it. If you are worried about the government using this to spy on you, not only should you seek medication but you should realize that law enforcement has had the ability to track you by your phone signal for years. My advice would be to not give law enforcement a reason to track you.

[ronpadz]

To all of you paranoids who think this is the end of privacy I urge you to read the article. This is opt-in technology to be shared with only those you have designated as being privileged to see it. If you are worried about the government using this to spy on you, not only should you seek medication but you should realize that law enforcement has had the ability to track you by your phone signal for years. My advice would be to not give law enforcement a reason to track you.

[ronpadz]

To all of you paranoids who think this is the end of privacy I urge you to read the article. This is opt-in technology to be shared with only those you have designated as being privileged to see it. If you are worried about the government using this to spy on you, not only should you seek medication but you should realize that law enforcement has had the ability to track you by your phone signal for years. My advice would be to not give law enforcement a reason to track you.

[logic46]

Advertising may be the motive, as an earlier poster said, but the result is an ubiquitous invasion of our privacy; something that Google doesn''t seem to be concerned with.

[einsteinian-2009]

Great gimmick for Hillary Clinton to keep track of Bill while she''s away in all those foreign countries...

[logic46]

This is a very frightening development. One can always find a justifiable reason to restrict freedom. The constitution protects us from government, but what protects us from this Big Brother company. Google is the single most dangerous private company in the world.

[johnnnne]

for tom inoue: it wasn''t Clinton, it was Reagan. Get your facts straight...and the Bushies who worked so hard to let us know it wasn''t their fault had six years of unimpeded majorities to reign this in and did nothing.