Creepy? Facebook is now tracking you in stores

[reno]

If you are on Facebook, you're aware that the site knows a lot about you, your friends and your interests.

But now it's also keeping tabs of where you are. And this new Facebook feature has been labeled "scary" by some privacy advocates.

Stores Could Know if You Are Browsing There

We're now entering a world that was predicted so eerily in the 2002 Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report. In it, Cruise walks into stores and is instantly recognized and targeted.
http://www.wxyz.com/money/consumer/dont ... -in-stores

[FlyingPenguin]

Well, Facebook has always been pretty up front about the fact that they harvest a ton of information from you in exchange for the service they provide, which is why I don't use Facebook.

On the flip side, how many people think about the fact that their credit card company knows everywhere they've been shopping?

And now there's people running around chasing Pokemon while the app send all the geo location data to who knows where.

[reno]

your so right FP .

[Pugsley]

Even off cliffs!

[EvilHorace]

On the flip side, how many people think about the fact that their credit card company knows everywhere they've been shopping?

Why would that surprise anyone or be a bad thing? They have instant receipts of every transaction that you make and always have since they stopped using the old paper method from what, the 70s?


Unless you're doing something wrong or have something to hide, I'm failing to see a problem so far.

As far as FBs concerned, there's also another popular app called Foursquare (which I also have) and it's also tracking you locations and gives you push notifications whenever you're in a place with ratings. I tried it just to see what it was but I like it. Gives you ratings and opinions from other users and that's sometimes use full. Foursquare is very much like what's being showed in that Tom Cruise movie.

There are many apps that track your location, weather, social type apps, etc.

As long as GPS tracking is active on your phone, someone, somewhere can track your location at any moment.

[wvjohn]

"As long as GPS tracking is active on your phone, someone, somewhere can track your location at any moment."

and it's probably in the metadata attached to all your pics. I think FB does strip the metadata when you post.