A new Web site called Please Rob Me has been launched to point out the significant risks inherent in geolocation.

"[If] you're pushing a 'check-in' from Gowalla, Brightkite, or Foursquare to a local restaurant out to your public Twitter stream, you're broadcasting that you aren't home," writes CNET News' Caroline McCarthy. "Which could be taken to mean that your home is ripe for burglary."

"Please Rob Me consists exclusively of an aggregation of public Twitter messages that have been pushed through fast-growing location-based networking site Foursquare, one of a handful of services that encourages people to share their whereabouts with their friends," McCarthy writes. "You can filter by geographic location, too."

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