Google Maps 5.3 for Android is fascinating slash creepy
Google has added a new Location History feature to its Google Maps 5.3 for Android. The Location History feature is an opt-in decision, and once you do you’ll be treated to a personal dashboard that will give you all kinds of stats like Distance Traveled, Hours At Work, Hours At Home, and weekly averages. Though the announcement says the Location History is “private to you”, I can’t help be be just a little bit skeptical about it. With its ability to rate locations using the Google Places feature, it also appears to be laying the groundwork to compete with FourSquare, Facebook Places and other location based services such as Yelp.
The (assumed to be fictional) Laura Johnson’s average for 4 hours a day spent at home suggests either she doesn’t get enough sleep, or spends a lot of nights away from home. See what kind of social havoc such information could cause if it were to go public? To balance out the negatives, if you ever have one of those nights you can’t remember, you won’t have to rely just on blurry pictures, though if you’re in the habit of having many nights like that, mapping it out is probably the least of your worries.
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