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PavlovsCat on May 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter's odd use of the word 'followed'

Geolocation used that way exposes something like a location ("is nearby") without those users even having a choice or being aware. I'm not saying that's what Twitter does, but if it did, I wouldn't find that nice at all.

lifeisstillgood on May 13, 2013 [–]

The death of privacy is not nice. But it is still dead, but the corpse is warm so hard to notice.

Wait till governments notice what they thought was secrecy was actually privacy. Total freak out time.

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