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You are viewing ARCHIVED CONTENT released online between 1 April 2010 and 24 August 2018 or content that has been selectively archived and is no longer active. Content in this archive is NOT UPDATED, and links may not function.By Sharon Nelson
Naked Security carried an ominous story about a Chrome browser extension developed by Harvard College computer science student Aran Khanna which allows people to pinpoint and track the location of Facebook Messenger users. The extension, called Marauders Map after the magical chart from the Harry Potter books that reveals the location of every person within Hogwarts School, works by collecting the location data of Facebook Messenger users and plotting it on a map. That Facebook has that data at its disposal is probably no surprise to anyone, but the ease with which it can be extracted, and the accuracy […]
Read the complete article at: Marauders Map: A Facebook Messenger Tool for Stalkers