Another reason to like Google
Mar. 16th, 2009 09:43 amEven if it is mainly to keep it competitive with Loopt:
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/googles-latitud.html
Google is promising that its new location-reporting service Latitude, which lets you broadcast where you are to your friends, will have a memory leak and won't remember anything.
That's a feature, not a bug. The intention is to make sure Latitude doesn't become an honeypot for cops wanting to be able to easily find out where you have been or even say the names of everyone who attended, or was near, a political protest.
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/googles-latitud.html
Google is promising that its new location-reporting service Latitude, which lets you broadcast where you are to your friends, will have a memory leak and won't remember anything.
That's a feature, not a bug. The intention is to make sure Latitude doesn't become an honeypot for cops wanting to be able to easily find out where you have been or even say the names of everyone who attended, or was near, a political protest.