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From Newsweek.

This article outlines some of the location applications that might turn out to be double-edged swords. It predicts that these types of applications will initially creep into everyday use as handy tools - friend-finders, personal safety services, navigation services, etc - and then slowly increase their reach until they have real impacts on our lives and our privacy - employee monitoring, police surveillance, location-based advertising, etc. If our location history is being recorded, even if we’re not being watched at the time, how do we know that past data won’t be abused at some point in the future?

It also introduces a great new word - ‘geoslavery’:

a practice in which one entity, the master, coercively or surreptitiously monitors and exerts control over the physical location of another individual to routinely control time, location, speed and direction for each and every movement of the slave.

What do you think? Where do we draw the line between acceptable monitoring and invasion of privacy?