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…
Facebook Hack Allows User Tracking, Mapping
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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