Key quote:
"Unfortunately you don't need a special purpose tool like "Girls Around Me" to do this, if you have a reasonably powerful Facebook query tool and know how to use it. I can't stress this strongly enough: the problem was not invented by SMS Services O.o.o. of Russia, who wrote the app. And banning the app will not make the problem go away."
This is exactly what I was saying last night. There is much MORE information available than this app accesses. This is just one of the first times someone had put a particularly creepy wrapper on it.
Indeed. One can imagine an entirely different reaction if the app was called something like "Popular People Around Me" and had come out of the US startup community rather than Russia.
