"I decided to write this extension, because we are constantly being told how we are losing privacy with the increasing digitization of our lives, however the consequences never seem tangible," Khanna wrote. Perhaps the most alarming scenario is how Khanna said he was able to use it to ascertain friends' daily routines. Some glitches have been reported in the extension, making it not work for everyone who uses it. "The first thing I noticed when I started to write my code was that the latitude and longitude coordinates of the message locations have more than 5 decimal places of precision, making it possible to pinpoint the sender’s location to less than a meter," Khanna wrote in a Medium post explaining why he opted to take on the project.
— - Every step you take, every move you make, your friends may be watching you, thanks to a new Chrome extension that can track a user's location based on Facebook Messenger.Īran Khanna, a computer science and mathematics student at Harvard, created Marauders Map, an extension that can be downloaded for Google's Chrome browser and used to plot the movements of a person's friends on a map.
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