Go ahead and see how many messages in your chats have locations attached. His code “scrapes every Facebook message sent by your friends or you with a location attached and then plots those locations chronologically on a map.” Aran Khanna
#PINPOINT COMMUNICATIONS FACEBOOK INSTALL#
If you install Marauders Map, then it will bring up a map each time you open Messenger. With this code you can see for yourself the potentially invasive usage of the information you share, and decide for yourself if this is something you should worry about.” Khanna, who named Marauders Map after Harry Potter’s magical map capable of tracking people, said, “I decided to write this extension, because we are constantly being told how we are losing privacy with the increasing digitization of our lives, however the consequences never seem tangible. If you aren’t sure, then location is probably on as Facebook tends to snub privacy-by-design options location sharing is on by default. Hopefully you turned off location sharing back when Facebook had to defend its reasons for Messenger permissions to access a phone’s camera and microphone. Sure Facebook shares your location with your friends, but did you know that if you use Messenger to group chat with someone who is not a friend, then that person can now find out not just what town you were chatting from, but longitude and latitude coordinates of where you did your chatting? Those coordinates are reportedly accurate to less than three feet from where you sent the message, according to Aran Khanna, a computer science and mathematics student at Harvard, who created a creepy new Chrome extension called Marauders Map to help you stalk your friends with Facebook Messenger.īefore we dig into Marauders Map, you need to know there is no reason to freak out and panic as the pinpointing app only works if you left location services for Messenger enabled.
If you use the Facebook Messenger app, would you be comfortable knowing your location can be pinpointed to less than a meter?
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