WASHINGTON, DC: While millions around the world are aware of and utilize Facebook’s location feature that lets you share your whereabouts with friends, many might not know just how simple it could be for a complete stranger to access the same information.Īran Khanna, a student developer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has created a Chrome extension called the Marauder’s Map that trawls for location data from Facebook Messenger and uses it to plot the locations of anyone in a group chat to within three feet, friend or not.Īccording to The Next Web, while it may be unnerving, the Marauders Map isn’t doing anything insidious it simply retrieves the latitude and longitude attached to messages from Javascript objects browsers automatically stores.
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