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Friday, July 3, 2015

Foursquare : ‘Check in’ feature expose to high risk of individual safety


 is one of the most popular social networking service mobile applications which provides a personalized local search experience for its users. The application purpose is to help the users to discover and share information about attractions and businesses around their community circle. It has an unique feature which is the ‘check in’ button, can let other users to check it out the status you updated at the particular places, at the same time also notify them where you are and what time you arrived. Over-sharing of individual locations will lead to personal safety at risk and this may give chance for strangers to stalk at an individual especially girls most recent hang out locations. What can we do for this? Parents should always guide their children by instilling the knowledge of avoiding surveillance. Perhaps, teenagers can also utilize this feature before leaving as a sign of telling your friends you have been there so as to avoid tracing by cyber-stalkers.


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Lim Teng Choon (B1402118)

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