I find it absolutely amazing that my phone has a GPS feature. My wife and I have been out of town and needed to know where to eat dinner; immediately it will map us to the restaraunt. Oh the ease of it all. I check my facebook and then notice one of my friends is at a ballgame in the same town, that is pretty cool.
However, with this cool tools comes some concern. Now anyone who has tracking software (and many do) can no track me and know that I and my friend are not home... Those guys might be criminals and now they know my house is vacant and my new plasma tv is history.
I realize it is difficult to keep up with all the privacy settings necessary on your personal devices, but I encourage you to check it out. As teachers, it is increasingly more important for us to share this information with our students. Here is a link you could download and share with your students. It should only take a few minutes to read over these tips with them.
Trustworthy Computing: Location Services
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