Facebook Hack Allows User Tracking, Mapping

A legal vulnerability discovered by a soon-to-be Google intern allows Facebook users to track the locations of their friends to within meters and create a map. Harvard University Aran Khanna discovered the little known tracking apparatus within Facebook’s messenger application and quickly began stalking his friends. Facebook Messenger allows individual user location tracking “When I came to college Facebook Messenger became an integral part of my digital life,” he wrote in a Medium blog post. “I quickly found that it was the easiest way to keep in touch with old high school friends, contact people I had just met, organize…