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26 Feb 2010

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Friday’s Food for Thought: Do You Practice Safe Location Sharing?

Added by USGIF Category: Daily Intelligence Brief, Friday's Food for Thought

Welcome to the Friday’s Food for Thought post on got geoint? We hope everyone had a productive work week and are ready for some weekend relaxation. Is part of your weekend relaxation involve leaving the house? Perhaps going out to dinner with friends? And, are you a big fan of location sharing (i.e., letting the whole world know that you are away from your house)? Well, then, perhaps you are sharing too much and letting potential burglars know that you are away from your house? This week’s FFT post focuses on how in this age of information- and location-ubiquity (is that really a term?) can potentially leave us vulnerable.

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