Contrary to the rising privacy and safety concerns for people posed by photo-sharing app Snapchat\u2019s Snap Map feature that allows certain users to track down your exact location, a study has argued that this feature is beneficial.
\nAccording to researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, these apps are particularly useful in verification.<\/p>\n
Professor Neil Thurman from LMU analysed how journalists reacted to these new tools for locating and filtering content on social networks, and monitoring the activities and movements of its authors.<\/p>\n
He found that the app enabled journalists to judge whether witness accounts were actually posted from the supposed scene of the action.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese apps have been welcomed by some journalists who see them as an \u2018early warning system\u2019,\u201d Thurman wrote in the study published in Digital Journalism.<\/p>\n
He agreed that this app also has consequences for users\u2019 personal privacy.<\/p>\n
Reservations like this are apparently not universal, he argued.<\/p>\n
Describing Geofeedia, a similar app in his report, Thurman said the app was used by hundreds of law enforcement agencies, promoted as giving the police the power to \u201cmonitor\u201d\u2014via social media\u2014trade union members, protesters and activist groups, who the company described as being an \u201covert threat\u201d.<\/p>\n
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