Visiting the wrong office
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I was on business recently in Hong Kong and was using Google Latitude on my phone to share my location. Shortly after arriving at the hotel room I received an email from my friend asking me how my trip to Mumbai was. When I checked Google Latitude, sure enough I was located in Mumbai. What made it a surprising coincidence was that my location was being reported as within 1km of my company office in north west Mumbai, even though I had never visited Mumbai and I was in a hotel room in Hong Kong. This anomaly only occured from the Hong Kong hotel room and no other location in Hong Kong
Date submitted:Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:09:12 +0000Coincidence ID:6287
