News article title: Why Facebook may want
to track your location
Brief description of situation:
Facebook may be working on an app that will
let your friends, or even complete strangers, know where you are at all times
Key stakeholders:
Facebook and Facebook users.
IT system involved:
A new app
from Facebook for mobile devices that will track all the time your location, to
make your friends know were are you and if they are near you.
Related
issues of social and ethical significance:
privacy and
surveillance, security. Makes that your location is public so anyone, including
friends and strangers know where you are all the time. This could be helpful
but can be harmfull because you will never hide from everybody.
Areas of
social impact:
legal and
cultural impact. In the legal poelpe need to has the option to turn on or off
the app when they want, the app doesn’t has this option. In the cultural
because the society will be more connected.
Evaluating
the impacts:
This
impacts are serious. Now everyone will know where u go and where you are going,
you will fell like tracked every time. Every user will lose their privacy. And
their security will be in risk every time.
Conclusion:
In my
opinion this new app will make more
damage thaqn help because it is against the security and this will cause more
kidnapps because everybody will know were are you going and located.
