In the six pages of coverage given to the new social networking phenomena Foursquare and Gowalla in the latest issue of Wired magazine, the words “privacy”, “safety” or “security” do not make a single appearance. Yet these are just two new social networking sites that don’t just want to know what you are doing as Twitter and Facebook do — they want to mark your exact location on a map, with pinpoint accuracy. Scary? No, it’s terrifying.
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