Google announced new software that will enable people with mobile phones and other wireless devices to automatically share their whereabouts with family and friends.
Dubbed Google Latitude, the technology lets you see the approximate location of your friends and family who have decided to share their location with you.
Google is trying to address privacy concerns, by requiring each user to manually turn on the tracking software and making it easy to turn off or limit access to the service.
Google also is promising not to retain any information about its users’ movements. Only the last location picked up by the tracking service will be stored on Google’s computers.