Do you check in at home? Foursquare updates your privacy settings.

shutterstock 59315062 520x245 Do you check in at home? Foursquare updates your privacy settings.

Im currently writing this to you from Courtney & Jesss apartment. Thats an official Foursquare location. It pops up on Instagram, Foodspotting, and on the web. Along with photos, comments and tips.

A few months ago, Foursquare changed how venues categorized as homes showed up on the app to help protect users privacy of peoples homes. This meant that homes only showed up in the nearby places list if you were friends with the creator of the venue, if youd checked in there before, or if you searched for it specifically by name.

For the past few months, the devs at the popular New York City startup gave its venue database a massive overhaul and re-categorized numerous venues as homes. And today, Foursquare announced its making homes even more private:

  • Now, only the person who created the home and their friends can see the address on the venue page.
  • Similarly, on the venue page, only those same people can see the map pin. Everyone else will see a map randomly centered somewhere near the address, with the zoom pulled out a bit.
  • The same rules apply if you share it on Facebook or Twitter.

It alsoadded a new Report a problem link, which allows users to report that a place is their home.

batcave Do you check in at home? Foursquare updates your privacy settings.A Foursquare little known fact: the most popular superhero-related h! ome name is the Batcave.

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