A while ago, a Snapchat update included a feature that allowed users to view any of their friends' locations (based on their story) by zooming out on the camera. A lot of people I know (and more I don't) turned that feature off because they didn't want their location broadcast to their snapchat followers, for any number of reasons.
Alternatively, almost everyone I know uses Maps or Google Maps to get directions to places, sometimes even knowing where they are.
The difference here is clear, the location information isn't being shared directly with other people, only the corporations providing the service.
I think that's the main difference when it comes to what information we care about in general. While we care what information corporations like Google have access to, if we use pretty much any of their services or a number of other ones, we seem to believe what the medium article stated : they'll have access to the information one way or another.
That also explains why the Russian photographer's experiment is so chilling. The idea that other everyday citizens have ways to find information like our social media profiles simply by taking a picture of us (not to mention the fact that they can just take a picture of us without our consent or knowledge) is terrifying.
Then again, that's information we've willingly put out for the public to see. So should it be?
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