Periscope Updated With Enhanced Location Privacy

Just last week Twitter launched Periscope, an app that would allow mobile users to create live video streams in which other users could tune into. The app was meant to compete with Meerkat and for the most part it looks like Twitter did a good job, but there was one huge glaring error and that was it gave too specific a location of where the user was streaming from.

Thankfully Twitter caught on quick because an update has since been issued in which the user’s location will no longer be so specific. As you can see in the screenshots above, before the update the user’s location could be zoomed in pretty far and gave away your specific location. We can only assume that apps like Periscope could create stalkers so giving away such a specific location is probably a pretty bad idea.

However with the update, it will now only show users roughly where you might be in a very zoomed out map. This will still give users a rough idea of the city/country you are in without actually telling them which street or house you are at. That being said disabling your location has always been a feature, but for those who might want to broadcast their location because they are traveling, hopefully this privacy update will be a welcomed one.

Tyler Lee
Categories: Cellphones
Tags: Apps, periscope, Twitter