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Do you know where your children are?

There’s a chance that everyone else does, thanks to the ever-growing number of mobile phone applications that can pinpoint a cellphone user’s location.

One of them is the new Facebook Places feature. Some safety experts are expressing specific concerns about it, while noting it is just the latest cybersafety issue of which parents should be aware.

Linda Criddle, president of the Safe Internet Alliance, a Virginia nonprofit group, says Facebook quietly rolled its new application out last month, possibly under the radar of parents who are not tech-savvy.

“One of the major objections we have is that they didn’t inform people properly,” she says on the phone from Seattle. “Most people don’t understand the repercussions. Suddenly there is a whole new risk, and parents don’t even know enough to talk to their kids about it.”

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