DSCF7489 Facebook Marauder's Map Aran Khanna
Harvard student Aran Khanna was denied his chance to intern at Facebook after the company learned that one of his creations exposed a critical flaw in its Messenger service, reports Boston.com. In May, Khanna released Marauder’s Map, a Chrome extension that used location data to show you exactly where your friends were. It was downloaded 85,000 times in three days, before Facebook asked him to disable it. Facebook also disabled location sharing from desktops and subsequently updated Messenger for mobile, giving users the option to control their GPS data. Prior to that, the app had been sharing users’ locations by…

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