Yes, it is opt-in, which is good. But I feel that for a casual user "use and store your location" doesn't fully get across the point that it's going to track your location in near real-time and make inferences like "this place is your home" about it.
And this is a general problem - people share all kinds of private information about themselves, without full understanding of the kind of analysis that is possible on that data these days.
I personally don't have a problem with the tech (and I've used Latitude way back, so it's not like any of it is new).
And this is a general problem - people share all kinds of private information about themselves, without full understanding of the kind of analysis that is possible on that data these days.
I personally don't have a problem with the tech (and I've used Latitude way back, so it's not like any of it is new).