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» Please Rob Me

Via @gunzalis. Foursquare is all very well, and sort of fun and a bit like Twitter before it got all mainstream and the media started playing, feeling fresh and cool and tech. One dabbles with it, waiting for one’s friends to join, in the meantime getting to know it faffing around with still too slow 3G connection. But then the Buzz-like backlash happened when people started realising the criminal possibilities. Admittedly, you would have to know the person’s address, but there are a lot of bad people out there who know a lot of things. Now, more interesting still is when they start solving crimes/terrorism/minor misdemeanour’s using the service. At that point Foursquare the harmless social locative game that gets you stuff becomes just another extension to the surveillance net with the wonderful functionality to pin you at a place at a time. The Home Office loves the locative web.