9 years ago
Zuck-Up as Facebook Messenger app tracks you everywhere forever
The ZuckerBorg collects so much data on its users that even visiting the site tags your ineffable soul for eternal tracking. But now a Harvard student's browser extension can now exploit the default location sharing setting to literally plot Facebook Messenger app users' movements on a map. Aran Khanna, a CompSci student at Harvard, noted the location data leakage and wrote the Chrome extension Marauders Map to plot where his friends have been contacting him from.
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