Foursquare Privacy Hole Leaks Nearly a Million Check-Ins
If you needed a reminder of why you ’re wary of location - based services , here ’s one : A ( gratefully good - intentioned ) hacker was able-bodied to snag information from some 870,000 Foursquare check - ins — even single set up only to be seeable to friends . Jesper Andersen build a website to exploit a hollow in the “ Who ’s Been Here ” section of Foursquare ’s website , allow him to scrape an judge 70 % of all check - in data in the San Francisco field over the last three workweek ....