![]() ![]() Jumping between Boston, New York, and Palo Alto in a few seconds isn't physically possible, so perhaps Color could track that sort of quick hopping to "detect obvious geo-spoofers," Wysopal writes.īut given Color's attitude about privacy, it's not clear they'll want to add that safeguard. He suggests that one fix for the problem would be to track how quickly users travel between locations. Wysopal's trick, on the other hand, functions as an unrestricted peek anywhere without that permission. But that peek would likely be limited in time and require the approval of whoever's stream the user jumped into, Color's staff has said. With Wysopal's trick, we can all start looking at Bill Nguyen's photos immediately.Ĭolor's founders have talked about adding a functionality called something like "peeking," which would allow users to jump into a location or a user's photostreams. But to access someone's photos, a user generally has to be in the same geographic vicinity as another user, or cross paths with someone else who is connected to that user. Not much of a privacy violation there, given that we were doing an early test of the app with Color's execs, but a funny example of how Color thinks-or doesn't-about privacy.)Ĭolor does, of course make everything public. No one ever asked our permission to use the photo. ![]() (A relevant aside: As my privacy-focused colleague Kashmir Hill points out, that's me and her in the image used on Color's homepage and in the app store. Very few people will probably do what you’re saying, but all the pictures, all the comments, all the videos are out there for the public to see." Within the app, there’s already functionality to look through the entire social graph. "It is all public, and we’ve been very clear about that from the very beginning. When I reached Color spokesman John Kuch, he answered with Color's usual line on privacy: That it has never claimed to offer any. ![]()
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