The exoneration of a Brooklyn teenager with the help of a timely Facebook status update has sparked interest in social networking tools as evidence for law enforcement officials and litigators. This could heighten interest in Google Latitude Location History, an opt-in feature that lets users store where they’ve been. Yet the fact that Google is now storing location history has privacy advocates such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation concerned about what sort of protection Google will offer Latitude users in the case of legal compliance.
– News Analysis: Defense attorneys everywhere are high-fiving in the
wake of a Brooklyn teenager’s acquittal over robbery charges when it was learned the teen had
posted a status update on Facebook from his home computer during the crime.
And with that, proponents of Facebook, Twitter and other soc…