Recently, Foursquare improved the privacy of its users by “blurring” the venue address if it is a home. People who can see the address are only you and your friends. Actually, Foursquare doesn’t want to make home as venue, but by the time being Foursquare which is badge and mayorship based makes people compete to be the mayor for any places including their home.

I believe that in the US, this decision will be accepted happily. Based on my experiences in online media, Western people consider privacy as important. They use their real name as the information but the address and other personal information are “secrets” and not to be publish on the internet and avoid people know about it easily. They tend to be more like using alias for their internet activities than using their real identity. The violation of the privacy will bring you to the court. There are many people grumbling if they have to give comments using the Facebook comment system because they are afraid – may be too paranoia – that their identity will be published.

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