From the New York Times:

“Ten years ago, people were afraid to buy stuff online. Now they’re sharing everything they buy,” said Barry Borsboom, a student at Leiden University in the Netherlands, who this year created an intentionally provocative site called Please Rob Me. The site collected and published Foursquare updates that indicated when people were out socializing — and therefore away from their homes.

In this day and age of Too Much Information (TMI), the only real security, it would seem, would be the “security through obscurity” variety. If everyone flooded the web about the minutiae of their day to day lives, chances are it’s going to be tough to single out anyone in particular. That approach, however, puts early adopters at risk. No longer would they be just a face in the crowd. Comes with the territory, I guess.

That being said, websites making said TMI possible should probably realize there are still some boundaries best left uncrossed.