Foursquare Fixes, Responds To “Who’s Been Here” Privacy Hole
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Yesterday, Wired published a report detailing an issue with Foursquare privacy, whereby a program could effectively harvest Foursquare checkin data by constantly refreshing venue pages and looking to see which users were showing up in the “Who’s Been Here” section, which shows a grid of users who recently checked in at that venue. According to the article, white hat coder Jesper Andersen was able to log around 70% of all check-ins in San Francisco — or 875,000 checkins — over the last three weeks. Today, Foursquare has addressed the report with a post on its official blog outlining the issue
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Foursquare Fixes, Responds To “Who’s Been Here” Privacy Hole