Marauders Map

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Marauders Map was a Chrome browser extension that showed the real-time location of your Facebook Messenger friends; similar IndieWeb functionality can be found in the social reader Together’s map view of your followings. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/28/marauders-map-chrome-app-tracks-facebook-messenger.

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• was written by an incoming Facebook summer intern (who was also a computer science major at Harvard, ironically) https://mashable.com/2015/05/29/marauders-map-facebook-stalker/
• whose internship was subsequently revoked https://mashable.com/2015/08/13/facebook-intern-marauders-map/

  Facebook revoked an internship offer to a Harvard student after he launched a controversial Chrome extension that showed your Facebook friends’ location down to the nearest meter.