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Facebook is using your phone’s location to suggest new friends—which could be a privacy disaster

Date published: 
June 28, 2016

"“Using location data this way is dangerous,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at Samford University, via email. “People need to keep their visits to places like doctor’s offices, rehab, and support centers discreet. Once Facebook users realize that the ‘People You May Know’ are the ‘People That Go To the Same Places You Do,’ this feature will inevitably start outing people’s intimate information without their knowledge.”"



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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on June 28, 2016 at 10:00AM

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