{"id":130951,"date":"2016-06-27T23:14:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T05:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/27\/another-reason-to-avoid-facebook-on-my-mobile.html"},"modified":"2016-06-27T23:14:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T05:14:18","slug":"another-reason-to-avoid-facebook-on-my-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/27\/another-reason-to-avoid-facebook-on-my-mobile.html","title":{"rendered":"Another reason to avoid Facebook on my mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So one of the bases for suggesting possible &quot;friends&quot; is physical proximity (via smart phone GPS)? That sounds like an awful idea, for reasons mentioned here and beyond. <\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;Once Facebook users realize that the &lsquo;People You May Know&rsquo; are the &lsquo;People That Go To the Same Places You Do,&rsquo; this feature will inevitably start outing people&rsquo;s intimate information without their knowledge.&#39;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Not that I expect this to have any more effect on FB numbers than previous privacy concerns. Which is one reason they&#39;re not afraid to play with it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/319108\/facebook-phone-location-friend-suggestions\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/2pY36nKWooWKZRowaBqV1FFGaug_i8Cw9EIOZyJT8tm25qrxi4BR7qeDtFL4ha4KytT9qZ-g1D0XBHkpREcAcda3FHHuufCRsKGDE21f0owJj2mmb0J9Pc2XO32D-JZoembE1IvPJ3TvJollEJDKSL_JMxh4Gu4XsymxmXtA8B-7y7D7OrH3Kxf5hxs=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/319108\/facebook-phone-location-friend-suggestions\/'>Facebook Is Using Your Phone&#8217;s Location to Suggest New Friends&mdash;which Could Be a Privacy Disaster<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThis could get creepy fast.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/4qgSxdNqm8Y'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So one of the bases for suggesting possible &quot;friends&quot; is physical proximity (via smart phone GPS)? That sounds like an awful idea, for reasons mentioned here and beyond. &#39;Once Facebook users realize that the &lsquo;People You May Know&rsquo; are the &lsquo;People That Go To the Same Places You Do,&rsquo; this feature will inevitably start outing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/27\/another-reason-to-avoid-facebook-on-my-mobile.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another reason to avoid Facebook on my mobile&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27141,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/17\/wow-another-good-reason-to-avoid-facebook-and-walmart.html","url_meta":{"origin":130951,"position":0},"title":"Wow, another good reason to avoid Facebook and Walmart","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 17-Mar-12 2:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because I want Walmart to know when my birthday is. 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