Marauders Map: the Chrome app that stalks Facebook Messenger users
by Hannah Jane Parkinson from Technology | The Guardian on (#9Y5K)
Privacy concerns over app that allows you to pinpoint location of anyone who is part of same messaging thread, and track them via time stamps
An extension for the Chrome web browser has been developed that allows people to pinpoint the precise location, to within a metre, of Facebook Messenger users.
The app - named Mauraders Map after the magical map in the Harry Potter books that showed the identity, locations and movements of all individuals - has been created by Harvard computer science and mathematics student, Aran Khanna.
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