Google Latitude API Will Let Users Check Traffic, Fraud From Mobile Phones

Google May 19 launched an API for Google Latitude, the friend-finding service that lets users display their locations on Google Maps. Developers could build apps or services for that alert users to potential fraud of their credit card accounts when a purchase is made from a location remote from the card holder. Programmers might also write apps that, in conjunction with users’ location history, send alerts to users’ mobile phones to let them know whether the route ahead of them is obstructed or heavily trafficked.
Google launched an API for Google Latitude, the friend-finding service that lets users display their locations on Google Maps.

The API, rolled out at Google I/O May 19, will let users use and reuse their Latitude location with any applications or services.

Google has put in the yeoman’s workadding controversial Location History and Location Alerts features that had privacy watchdogs barking last September. Google is even mulling a Latitude integration with Google Buzz.

However, the company now wants to outsource the work to third-party developers and has a laundry list of apps and services it would like to see developers build with the Latitude API.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Google-Latitude-API-Will-Let-Users-Check-Traffic-Fraud-From-Mobile-Phones-564738/

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