The Dark Side of “Geo-Tagging”

Posted on June 30th, 2011

The Daily Shield welcomes Steve Schwartz, Intersections’ Executive Vice President, Consumer Services. In today’s podcast, Steve shares his thoughts on location-based services such as Foursquare. These services all do something called “geo-tagging” which can be great fun for you and your friends on social networks. But there is a “dark side” to these services – they also let the “bad guys” know where you are. And that is an unintended consequence that you may not want.

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