Geofences

Flickr have fairly recently introduced what they call ‘geofences’ which allow users to set privacy options on location information for selected images. Ostensibly this looks like a case of ‘job done’ but on closer investigation it actually reinforces our previous post about having  an explicit purge/delete capability – a sort of ‘un-geotag’.

This article provides a good overview of why this might be needed. Alternatively, if you actually want to spy on friends and colleagues take a look at this Creepy little app…

 

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