{"items": [{"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1321971922920", "service": "gp", "text": "I thought about this, but location eats my iPhone battery pretty bad. ", "timestamp": 1321971922}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1321972101963", "service": "gp", "text": "@David Chudzicki\n how bad? Does the phone still last all day?", "timestamp": 1321972101}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1321977821209", "service": "gp", "text": "Probably not, but I'm just guessing based on an impression of how quickly it the battery reading went down.", "timestamp": 1321977821}, {"author": "Lee", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/245446652182627?comment_id=245863518807607", "anchor": "fb-245863518807607", "service": "fb", "text": "I understand from an op-ed article that \"Latitude\" cannot not be disabled, once used, and Google will know forever where your phone is. Big Brother?", "timestamp": "1322022611"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/245446652182627?comment_id=246051528788806", "anchor": "fb-246051528788806", "service": "fb", "text": "@Lee: latitude can be disabled. My phone now has an option to turn off location reporting and another option to disable latitude entirely. What op-ed article are you talking about?", "timestamp": "1322060280"}, {"author": "Lee", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/245446652182627?comment_id=246356305424995", "anchor": "fb-246356305424995", "service": "fb", "text": "It was Sunday in the Phila. Inquirer. Talking about Android phones, like the new one I have.

Lee", "timestamp": "1322102235"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/245446652182627?comment_id=246368802090412", "anchor": "fb-246368802090412", "service": "fb", "text": "@Lee: looking I see this: http://articles.philly.com/.../30422165_1_android-google...

This piece is not well researched. A few bits:

\"I tried to uninstall Latitude, but could not. The app doesn't show up in your task manager when it's running, nor will you find it in the apps manager. It seemed the only thing I could do with Latitude was turn it on.\"

This is because latitude is part of the maps program. You turn off latitude from inside maps.

\"Google denies it will share your location with a third party. But if it collects a history of your locations, essentially creating a new piece of information - will it share that?\"

Latitude doesn't save past locations by default: https://www.eff.org/.../exclusive-google-takes-stand...

You can turn history logging on if you want to, though, and I did.

\"The argument will be that you've already consented to location-monitoring - so why should a law-abiding citizen be afraid of speed monitoring for the safety of the community?\"

The same EFF article I linked above says google will only reveal this information to police with a court order. This would prevent police from just looking through location logs for evidence of speeding.

\"If you visit Latitude's Web page on your PC, for example, Google will ask you for permission to share your location. If you click 'no,' you get an alert box with only one button - 'go back.' (And get asked for permission again.) No is not an option.\"

The purpose of latitude is to share your location. If you decline, you get a popup saying \"You decided not to share your location. / To begin using Latitude with friends, you\u2019ll need to share your location to get started. Remember, you can always remove friends or hide your location later from the privacy settings. / Go Back\". If you don't want location sharing, there are lots of other websites with other purposes.

The root issue, that this person was signed up for latitude without their consent, I don't know anything about. They may have signed up by accident, google may have screwed up, or the email that made them think they had been signed up may have been fake.", "timestamp": "1322104280"}, {"author": "Lee", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/245446652182627?comment_id=246369402090352", "anchor": "fb-246369402090352", "service": "fb", "text": "Thanks, Jeff; this helpful analysis make me feel a lot less like I am living in 1984.

Lee", "timestamp": "1322104373"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1334940711769", "service": "gp", "text": "I think I was just wrong. Am pretty sure it doesn't eat my battery. (Am just separately annoyed that the battery doesn't last longer.)", "timestamp": 1334940711}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1334941453372", "service": "gp", "text": "Would you be wary of sharing your location \nhistory\n publicly? I'm assuming not and that you just haven't happened to. (From your thoughts on privacy generally, and the fact that anyone could easily build up a history from your feed.) I'm thinking that if I get some free time, I may want to see how well I can predict future locations in an automated way.", "timestamp": 1334941453}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1334943887062", "service": "gp", "text": "That would be neat!", "timestamp": 1334943887}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1335282165842", "service": "gp", "text": "It looks like the API only gives access to a certain amount of history. :( You can get it all by downloading your history, though.", "timestamp": 1335282165}]}