General Issues

Location accuracy issues

(Updated Feb 18)
We fixed a bug this morning (Wednesday, Feb 18 PST) in the WiFi location database. If you have previously seen a wrong location reported in Latitude while connected to a WiFi network, please check again to see if it is now corrected. iGoogle users may need to clear your browsers cache and refresh as well.

Please note that Google’s cell ID and WiFi location database accuracy and coverage varies by location and may contain outdated information. We are continuously working to update and improve the database.

Friends list limitations
Latitude is currently designed to support friends lists of less than 100 friends. While Latitude can support larger friends lists, you may experience instability if you have more than 100 friends added to Latitude. If you experience crashes, please try resetting Google Maps for mobile, installing it again, or removing some friends.

iGoogle gadget unavailable for some US users
A very small subset of US users are still using the legacy iGoogle interface and will not be able to access the Google Latitude gadget. If you would like to switch over to the newer iGoogle version so you can add the Latitude gadget, please point your browser to the following URL (US only): http://www.google.com/ig/v2invite

Please note that the Latitude iGoogle gadget is only available in the US.

Google Contacts with multiple email addresses
Currently, if you add a friend to Latitude who has multiple email addresses associated with them in your Google Contacts, all email addresses will be added as friends in Latitude. Removing one email address will remove the entire Google Contact and any other email addresses associated with the contact.

 

Device Issues

Windows Mobile: Background sharing not working
Background sharing is not currently working on Windows Mobile phones when closing Maps for mobile and choosing ‘Yes’ to allow background sharing. This is a known issue and is being fixed for the next release.

If you leave Maps for mobile open in the background by minimizing it or opening another app, location updates will continue as long as your phone is awake.

BlackBerry: “Login failed” error
Please make sure all your device’s permissions for Google Maps are set to ‘Allow’ since signing into Latitude requires secure network connections. See the path to these settings here: Options > Advanced Options > Applications > Google Maps > Edit Permissions (using the BlackBerry menu button)

Users on a BES may experience login failure due to timeouts because your BES admin has restricted the network connections for your device. Latitude requires a secure HTTPS connection to sign in. Please check with your BES admin.

Windows Mobile: Signing in error: “This program requires a data connection…”
Windows Mobile users are experiencing this certificate error due to an invalid date set for their device. Please make sure your device has the correct date set for it. If your date is not correct, you will experience a security certificate error and will not be able to sign in since Latitude requires a secure connection.

Please note that some users with custom ROMs are also experiencing this issue.

Symbian S60 devices
If you are on S60 3rd ed. FP2 phone (Nokia 5320 XpressMusic, 6210 Navigator, 6220 Classic, 6650, N78, N79, N85, N96, N96-3), you’ll need to set a default destination using the following steps:

1. Go to Settings > Connection > Destinations > Options > Default connection
2. Select “Internet” (if you have it) or whichever APN group you want it to use.

 

Facebook Privacy Concerns

 

Facebook, formerly Thefacebook, is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.^[1] Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website’s name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.^[4] Website membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 175 million active users worldwide.^[5]

Facebook has met with some controversy over the past few years. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria^[6] and Iran.^[7] It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service.^[8] Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. It is also facing several lawsuits from a number of Zuckerberg’s former classmates, who claim that Facebook had stolen their source code and other intellectual property.

 

 

 

Image Concerns:

You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of and on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof. You represent and warrant that you have all rights and permissions to grant the foregoing licenses.

 

Employers

Yes I do believe that employers could/should use the internet to research possible new hires or current employees, but only to a certain extent. Employers commonly rely on the internet to research possible new hires or current employers. I mean, as long as one doesn’t have an obsession with the employee or person they are looking up, then it sounds fine to me. Using the web to find people is common for many, although there are certain cases where people have obsessions but that is not as common or high-rated as the amount of people who look up people in a normal manner. There is such thing as privacy and this should be kept in a trustworthy matter. That is why it is significantly important to really think about what it is you are putting up about yourself. Do not enclose a large amount of information about yourself when creating a profile or weblogs. When you do this, everyone has the chance to see everything about you and use it against you.