The example is to illustrate that people are fine with giving away their data. Google Latitude no longer exists and I don’t think Google sells data like that, they analyse it themselves. But other services do.
1. Fine. But then one shouldn't single out one company that maybe doesn't do this. I was honestly interested in knowing if they were caught red handed but so far no references to that.
2.The function (at least the parts I used) now exists as part of Google maps.
2.The function (at least the parts I used) now exists as part of Google maps.