US Air Force Warns Troops Over Facebook -- The Telegraph
The US Air Force is warning its troops to be careful when using Facebook and other popular networking sites because some new features could show the enemy exactly where US forces are located in war zones.
In a warning sent to senior commanders and troops in the field and issued on its internal website this month, the Air Force said that careless use of these services by airmen can have devastating implications for operations security and privacy.
The applications are offered by a variety of services, including Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla and Loopt, and can identify a person's location, even pinpoint it on a map.
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My Comment: I can see a love one back home wanting to know where their "alternative other" was in Iraq or Afghanistan .... but the enemy will also have access to the same information .... a prospect that will be uncomfortable if you are important enough to warrant their tracking.
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I wrote about some of the challenges of social media in this age of shrinking communications:
http://tinyurl.com/237jp23
Of course, it was based on a link I found here!
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