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Facebook ‘Marauder’s Map’ turns Messenger into a stalker’s dream

Posted on May 28, 2015 by pogowasright.org

Owen Williams reports:

You’re no doubt aware that Facebook shares your location with friends, but what you probably didn’t realize is how precise that data is or how easy it is to extract from the service.

Aran Khanna, a student developer in Cambridge, MA, has created a Chrome extension that grabs location data from Facebook Messenger and rapidly plots your friends’ locations on a map.

Read more on TheNextWeb.

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