Stalker tech

[Jason Dunn]

<a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/11/stalker_tech/index.html?x">http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/06/11/stalker_tech/index.html?x</a><br /><br />Everyone keeps talking about location-based services, but this offers a bit of a twist: the service allows others to know your location. Interesting, or potentially harmful? I think this is a good move, if only to take baby steps, towards location-based services and learn from the issues that pop up. What do you think? Would you like to have people know where you were on a school campus? What about in everyday life?<br /><br />"It's 11 p.m. Do you know where your boyfriend is? If he attends the University of California at San Diego, finding him may be as easy as turning on a PDA. The university is equipping hundreds of students with personal digital assistants that allow them to track each other's location from parking lot to lecture hall to cafeteria. The technology is sophisticated enough to pinpoint where a person is in a building -- say, a dorm -- within a margin of error of one floor." Source: <a href="http://cebooks.blogspot.com/">Jerry S. Justianto</a>

[Brad Adrian]

I think this kind of technology could be very useful...if implemented properly. I also believe, though, that the only responsible way to implement it is through a very specific opt-in configuration, i.e., I determine exactly who I let see my location, like friends and family.