A legal vulnerability discovered by a soon-to-be Google intern allows Facebook users to track the locations of their friends to within meters and create a map.
Harvard University Aran Khanna discovered the little known tracking apparatus within Facebook’s messenger application and quickly began stalking his friends.
Facebook Messenger allows individual user location tracking
“When I came to college Facebook Messenger became an integral part of my digital life,” he wrote in a Medium blog post. “I quickly found that it was the easiest way to keep in touch with old high school friends, contact people I had just met, organize impromptu poker games with people I hardly knew, and everything in between.”
Everything in between was not defined, and it is unclear if Khanna...
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