The People Nearby feature in the secure messaging app can be abused to unmask a user s precise location. This Google TechTalk features Aleecia McDonald of Carnegie Mellon University discussing how we arrived at the current state of online privacy and how self-regulation works in practice. The social networking service was taken down by Amazon, Apple and Google and Google in the wake of the scandal. The People Nearbody feature in this article was removed from the service.
Source: https://threatpost.com/online-privacy-industry-self-regulation-102309/72604/