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I love my i-Phone. It does so many things well. I can get my e-mails, shoot video, take photo's, get news, manage my finances, surf the web and the list goes on. But one of my favorite features on my i-Phone is when an app asks me to use my "current location" to pull up information such as finding the nearest movie theater or restaurant. It's such a time saver. And to think this location based capability wasn't even around a few years ago. Thanks to innovative location technologies, some of which are discussed in this Tech Crunch article, our mobile location enabled devices have made our lives easier.

But of course there are many privacy concerns related to the aforementioned mobile location feature. For instance, the threat of hacking and spying is real which is the topic of this shocking youtube clip. Bottom line, people feel its unnerving for others to know where they are which is completely understandable. To those folks, I say use this feature at your own risk. Also consider most phones like the i-Phone will let you disable the location setting if you so chose. As for me, I think it's worth the risk. Thus far, I've had no complaints using this feature and have arrived at my movie and restaurant destinations with time to spare because of it.