U.S. Military Warns Against Facebook Places

The U.S. Navy has circulated a document to personnel recommending the disabling of Facebook Places and explaining how to do it.

Apparently, up until very recently, members of the U.S. armed forces have been allowed to tote around cell phones with Facebook Places enabled. The Navy has recently circulated a document asking personnel to rid their mobile devices of the application. This could have been the same one that the Air Force had distributed, as numerous media outlets reported yesterday.

According to a copy of this document forwarded to AllFacebook.com:

The main concern relating to the use of the application, is that it may inadvertently compromise the locality of a military user.

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