• TechCrunch, Friday, September 10, 2010 12:13 PM

The Web site PleaseRobMe.com a spoof using the Foursquare API to show how people could take advatage of the information posted on check-in services never actually resulted in any crimes being committed (as far as police know, at least), but Facebook Places has.

A burglary ring in New Hampshire used Places to alert them when people were out, and sucessfully robbed 50 houses before police caught up with them. Techcrunch's Eric Schonfeld offers, "This seems like a good time to revisit Please Rob Me's mission statement."

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