There is much talk lately of the risks of sharing too much personal information on social networks more diverse. When the information is really too much or too detailed hypothetical there is a risk of compromising the security of a user, or this case in your home. This is a demonstration of the fact that the information available to those who have an internet connection, can be interpreted and used differently by different (better, worse?). When then to interpret this information is a Dutch developer committed to denounce this risk are created as initiatives PleaseRobMe.com that even in their simplicity are able to raise a fuss in the media reporting of the risks run by the privacy of Internet users. This site provides fact ironically as a point of reference for the criminals involved in burglary of business providing them with a tool to easily locate the houses left unattended by their occupants.
PleaseRobMe.com is nothing more than a website, created in four hours, which brings together research already possible crossing data posted on Twitter by users of the FourSquare.com service. If Twitter allows you to share it in an instant what you are doing or thinking at any given time, the service provided by the site FourSquare.com permits those who own a mobile device equipped with GPS, to share, along with information on what you are doing, the position where you are! By crossing the results of the two sites will be possible thanks to the information posted by the users, to know if and when they left their home unattended.
Certainly the initiative is more moral than practical, I do not think that all the users FourSquare.com dress alone, but it is a reminder to reflect on the direction taken by the sharing of personal information, their friends and their and acquaintances, who never fails you always raise new controversies and alarms.
The home page of the site PleaseRobMe.com
PleaseRobMe.com is nothing more than a website, created in four hours, which brings together research already possible crossing data posted on Twitter by users of the FourSquare.com service. If Twitter allows you to share it in an instant what you are doing or thinking at any given time, the service provided by the site FourSquare.com permits those who own a mobile device equipped with GPS, to share, along with information on what you are doing, the position where you are! By crossing the results of the two sites will be possible thanks to the information posted by the users, to know if and when they left their home unattended.
Certainly the initiative is more moral than practical, I do not think that all the users FourSquare.com dress alone, but it is a reminder to reflect on the direction taken by the sharing of personal information, their friends and their and acquaintances, who never fails you always raise new controversies and alarms.
