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This is a new service from Google which is, as usual, the begin of an other series of articles Pros and Cons and the sempiternal question of communication versus privacy. From the enthousiast to the most paranos you’ll have enough to feed your information needs …

The question of Communication vs Privacy have no simple or easy answer and each of us must may find his own (temporary) answer. In the life is good to have principles and follow them but without letting them drive us to a fanatical attitude over the facts of the life. I don’t pretend to have a personnal relation to the truth and pose as “the tech guy with all answers”. To speak frankly, most of the time, I rely on empiric rules and my principles are on the side of postulates not axioms to speak à la mathematical logic. Whilst I’m making research about this subject the theme of “Big Brother” start to emerge from my morning slow brain id est the state of my mind before a couple of coffee cups. I made me an empirical rule I want to share with you: each time you’ll read the expression “Big Brother” , used mainly by poeple who never read the “1984″novel, be sure, say at 90%, that’s a kind of stuff from misinformed paranaut © climenole in the linguistic fields of: smooth talks, blurb, patter, flannel, snow job and cant. To keep a long story short a FUD.

I case you’re a paranaut © climenole, a variety of interNUT © climenole & paranoiac, I have solutions for you if you trust me which is , in your case, a big mistake since you have to be souspicious all the time. (May be I’m a Google spy or worst a stipended agent of the ameriGUN imperialism! Don’t be SO confident!)

Here some modest proposals:

Just to hook your cell phone to a wild animal then released it. You’ll be localised by your ennemies in wild and far area until the cell battery will last. Not recommended with a polar bear.

Send you cell phone by mail to a funny and far area of the world: Antarctica, New Guinea, somewhere in Siberia or better to Milk River, Alberta voted number ONE  in the most boring spot in North Amerdica! (Don’t put MY address in the return address of your shipment: I’m parano like you [ be suspicious also with this assertion as usual].

I both case, when the cell phone battery last, you’ll disappear in the wild and keep your privacy out of the scope of this [choose the epithet] Big Brother!

Last word. Some of you ask me why I post, sometimes in french, sometimes in english {engRish?}, or in both official language of Canada and on which Eternal Principles of Publishing I’m obey in each situation. Sit down, take a profound breath, attach your TUQUE [in case your Canadian] and listen carefully since I’m not a person acquiescent to repeat:

I always follow my own fantasy or, when I’m like the dimwit of Buridan, with a quarter dollar [You know how I guess...  ]: on the side of the Cariboo in french, on the side of Our Gracious Majesty The Queen, in english.

To speak frankly , I’m presently wearing a TUQUE, an genuine one, red, in whool with a pompon. I never surf on the Web without my Tuque except the july 14th  (wearing a berêt and a baguette of fresh french bread under my left armpit, the Victoria Day (wearing a bowler hat) and the june 24th (wearing a Tam-O-Shanty, a kilt, a sporan, a plaid and a claymore roaring like a mad to commemorate the Victory of Bannockburn)

Google Latitude : localiser sa tribu sur Google Maps

Google continue de faire évoluer les fonctionnalités de ses services mobiles. La dernière invention en date est Google Latitude, un service de positionnement de ses amis et proches sur Google Maps depuis son téléphone portable.

Si ceux-ci sont d’accord, leur position approximative sera affichée dans un plan Google Maps tandis que des raccourcis proposent de les contacter de diverses façons : SMS, Google Talk, Gmail, etc., permettant de rester en contact quasi-permanent avec sa tribu.

Google est bien conscient qu’en proposant une telle possibilité, il s’expose à des critiques sur le respect de la vie privée et il prend soin de préciser que des mesures de protection sont incorporées dans l’architecture de ce service mobile.

Google Latitude | Geek Inc

Le futur est là! Dans tous les films de SF on voit se genre de truc et bien maintenant c’est à votre porté, grâce à Google Maps et votre mobile…

Google propose une mise à jour de Google Maps, ajoutant à ce dernier un service du nom de Latitude… Le concept est simple, localiser ses amis en temps réel sur une carte!Pas besoin d’avoir un GPS, le service fonctionne très bien par triangulation GSM. Il vous suffit d’installer la dernière version de google Maps en vous rendant à l’adresse: m.google.com/latitude depuis votre mobile.

Google Latitude: Tell Your Friends Where You Are – BusinessWeek

Ever wonder where your friends or your spouse or your child is? That’s the question Google hopes to answer for you with a new service launching Wednesday called Google Latitude.

Using a combination of Global Positioning System, WiFi, and cell tower location data, the service, an extension of Google Maps, Latitude can determine where you are in the world via your mobile device depending on which of those technologies the device can use. It will work on most color Blackberries, most Windows Mobile 5.0 devices, most Symbian S60 devices, and phones powered by Google’s Android mobile software, such as the T-Mobile G1. No iPhone or iPod Touch yet, but Google says that’s coming very soon.

New Google tool lets you track friends and family – San Jose Mercury News

For more than a year, Google has been able to provide an answer to the question “Where am I?”

Now it can also answer “Where are the people I care about?”

On Wednesday, Google announced an upgrade to its mapping application that lets people track friends and family members in 27 countries around the globe, using a PC or a mobile phone.

While some people might find this development a bit creepy or intrusive, others say such location-tracking services are surprisingly useful and fun. More than a million people have signed up for Loopt and Where.com, two of the most popular services.

Google’s service, called “Google Latitude,” can be added to Nokia smart-phones, most Windows Mobile phones, most BlackBerrys, the T-Mobile G1 and on Google.com.Other competitors, like Loopt and Where.com, are available on the iPhone and iPod touch. Their Web sites feature information about which phones and networks they support. (Google said its service will also soon be available on Apple’s mobile devices.)

Why would anyone want his or her phone to report his or her location?

Some other points of view

Three Reasons Why I Won’t Be Using Google Latitude

Could Google Latitude Run Into Legal Trouble?

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