Google has released their latitude application that lets you do the same with your friends and that, too, raises a lot of privacy concerns, but with latitude there are important differences: you install it yourself because you want to, you get to decide how accurate your location will be (you can set it to only show the city) and you can turn it off.

I can’t see this enterprise approach taking off because it violates too many privacy concerns.

Google has released their latitude application that lets you do the same with your friends and that, too, raises a lot of privacy concerns, but with latitude there are important differences: you install it yourself because you want to, you get to decide how accurate your location will be (you can set it to only show the city) and you can turn it off.

I can’t see this enterprise approach taking off because it violates too many privacy concerns.

How do you prevent abuse? This is RIDICULOUSLY bad for privacy, as described in this article.

This might make sense if the employee had a private password they could set and then later give to the administrator to unlock tracking on their blackberry. That way it could be tracked only with the employee’s consent.

How do you prevent abuse? This is RIDICULOUSLY bad for privacy, as described in this article.

This might make sense if the employee had a private password they could set and then later give to the administrator to unlock tracking on their blackberry. That way it could be tracked only with the employee’s consent.

How do you prevent abuse? This is RIDICULOUSLY bad for privacy, as described in this article.

This might make sense if the employee had a private password they could set and then later give to the administrator to unlock tracking on their blackberry. That way it could be tracked only with the employee’s consent.