Foursquare Adds Privacy Option with Home Address
By selecting “Home” the actual address will be kept hush-hush for only the user and his or her friends to know about the private location. Of course, the user can edit the venue or delete it altogether.
Even though it is not official yet, with a formal announcement later this week, Foursquare will be introducing a new privacy option to help prevent users from unknowingly share home addresses with complete strangers.
About Foursquare was first to report the new update for the location-sharing service, which allows any user to elect a Foursquare location as a private residence. The user just has to select “Home” as the primary category for the venue.
By selecting “Home” the actual address will be kept hush-hush for only the user and his or her friends to know about the private location.
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