Beware, Google Maps Can Location Detection Through Computers

In fact by using the home computer, Google can detect the location of computer users. Google Maps users can use the service through the computer and find their location, such as that applied in the mobile phone. Thursday (09 / 7) then, Google has to update Google Maps, including a new label icon named My Location, which can make user pinpoin coordinates in Google Maps.

"When users visit the Google Maps support to the browser, the user will see the My Location button in the left corner of Google Maps. By clicking the button, it will directly map the approximate location of the user. If the locations are quite accurate, then the environment will to show color blue, such as Google Maps on mobile phones. "Says software engineer Steve Block and Noam Ben Haim in the blog post Google Maps (google-latlong.blogspot.com). Click the My Location for the second time that the dot design a location immediately will lose.

Block and Ben Haim stress when Google takes over the user privacy seriously, no wonder if many critics considered to appear as Google threaten user privacy. However, Google asserts that they will not use the user's location without user permission. Google Maps will record the user's location, either interasi online with Google or with other websites that will show the IP address of the user.

Google Maps using the W3C Geolocation API, which support in Firefox 3.5 and Google Chrome 2.0 and other browsers with the Gears plugin support. Geolocation API will be calculated this user's location information using the received access point nearest Wi-Fi. If information is missing, the will be refereced IP address information to the user, the more accurate. (H_n)