International Law

Facebook plans to allow users to "share" location

According to the New York Times, Facebook is going to roll out full-blown location sharing in April. From the NYT's Bits Blog:

Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

In preparation for the introduction, Facebook updated its privacy policy last November. The new policy states: ?When you share your location with others or add a location to something you post, we treat that like any other content you post.?

At that time, the company also offered some foreshadowing of the new feature: ?If we offer a service that supports this type of location sharing we will present you with an opt-in choice of whether you want to participate.?

Facebook has been working on a location-based tool for close to a year, but decided to wait until the product was completely ready for mainstream adoption before announcing it, said the people with knowledge of the project.

Full post as published by The Canadian Privacy Law Blog on March 10, 2010 (boomark / email).