Emerald and privacy - did you know this?

I'm not usually very bothered about privacy but I accidentally discovered that you can rapidly home in on anyone by opening the radar window and double-clicking a name on the list. Then the cam shoots straight up to look at the selected av, even if they're several hundred metres away.

I know that you've always been able to cam into buildings over long distances by disabling camera constraints, but this radar method is instant.

Just be careful you don't use the double clik TP feature of Emerald after or you appear right next to that person you are secretly camming HEHE...er.. a friend told me..that she did that...mmm , oh look! a bird!

That was one of the earliest features of the radar. (^_^)y

Yep I kinda knew this when people casually mentioned where I was or what I was doing. Lol

Good thing I live a PG life.

don't expect any privacy unless on own sim with restricted access.

which i have

There are scripted products that do the same thing. SL is a gold fish bowl.

... Which is why I give everyone map access immediately upon friending. (^_^)y

it's creepy

You too? *grins*

yup yup... I scripted a little goody that would grab all sorts of unreasonable information from radar.... just to see how much I could get... you can jump to looking at them, pop directly next to them, pop their profile, check to see if they own land on the sim, or are actively in an of the sim land groups, how many prims they might have on the sim, etc, ad nauseam. it's kinda disgusting how much useless info you can gather on a person in radar range. (or how far radar rang can truly be =X)

I use radar perv camming all the time to get into laggy places.

Perv cam someone near a chair, and then sit in the chair.

I have the show look at feature turned on, so I can see when people perv cam me - if I'm not getting perv cammed enough in a place, I'll leave. What's the point of going out in public if nobody's going to perv you?

If I'm slapping pixels with somebody within 96m of anyone, there had better be somebody perv camming us, or I'm wasting my time.

I perv cam others all the time to see what they've got on, to see who's interesting to me, and to just jump around a busy place without having to work it with my camera.

If someone's doing a walking of a place, I'll perv cam lock onto them, and get a free tour.

Yeah, SL is a goldfish bowl. Lack of privacy bugged me for a few days, then I decided to let out my inner exhibitionist. Perv me and you're liable to get an eyeful, now.

Same here. While some abuse the priv, having everyone have it on could be handy. If you see one of your friends in a skybox with 1 other avatar at the same exact coordinates it *might* not be a good time to IM them.

Even though I am a modest sort by nature, I can't get too worked up about perv-camming. If people want to take the trouble to radar-cam up into my skybox and watch me and my partner on our poseballs, they can go ahead. They can get the same effect, with less work, by making themselves an alt and hopping on their own poseballs. As far as I'm concerned, the real action - and the real intimacy, the part I care about keeping between us - is not in the visuals, it's in our IMs.

There's nothing special about Emerald here; that it does something automatically that anyone could do before by themselves anyway doesn't seem to make a difference to me. So far as I know, you've always been able to cam-fu your viewer into just about any sky box, any house, and any restricted parcel.

Sure there is privacy in SL. For $1000 down and $300 a month. Just set your isolated private island to private access.