Sunday, December 19, 2010

Google Quietly Kills Their Creepy Latitude Location Alerts Feature

Back in February, we noted a sort of creepy feature of Google Latitude that was annoying some users: Location Alerts. The beta feature actually launched alongside the Location History feature the previous November, but it didn't get a lot of attention at the time. Then people started getting emails notifying them where their friends were ? without asking for such emails. Yeah, a little creepy. So it shouldn't be too surprising to hear that Google has quietly killed the feature. The only place Google noted this is on this page on their support site. As they write:

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