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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/15/twitter-location-weknowyourhouse/

   Twitter + location = WeKnowYourHouse

   Yesterday, we wrote about how Michael Dell's daughter had been too open with details of her family's activities and location, and gave some advice on how to post wisely on social networks. One of our readers, James, then left a comment on the story alerting us to WeKnowYourHouse.com.

   Calling itself "another social networking privacy experiment", WeKnowYourHouse scours Twitter for people using the word "home" in their tweets and picks up their associated geolocation, then publishes said tweet to its site along with information about where the tweeter is.

   It's crazy how much personal information people keep pumping out for the world to see. To repeat part of Duck's advice:

   Turn geolocation services off. Giving out regular and precise updates of your whereabouts is convenient - but you should consider your location to be a form of PII (personally identifiable information).

   Sounds rather similar to pleaserobme.com

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Suze
   Member

   Yikes!! Thank you for posting this, hotdoge3. Who knew? According to WeKnowYourHouse.com's site, the information is deleted after 1 hour, but who wants to risk having their whereabouts published to begin with??? [PleaseRobMe.com ... LOL]

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Inas
   Member

   Yes, geolocation info. should be turned off for safety reasons, for sure.

   Posted 12 years ago #
4. 

   mikiem2
   Moderator

   Yes, geolocation info. should be turned off for safety reasons, for sure.

   Now more devious minds might think of using GPS spoofing to put you somewhere you weren't. Makings of a good crime novel, or potentially something more real-world?

   The GPS spoofing tech came to light showing how easy it is to control drone aircraft -- some feel it's how Iran got the U.S. drone to land there. It's obviously a big concern as governments allow more & more drones in the sky, & companies like Fed-Ex say they'd love to have pilotless air freight.

   GPS spoofing sends a fake GPS signal that overpowers the real one coming down from satellites. The villain in a novel could use it to prove the victim they were setting up was actually at the scene of the crime. &/or that they themselves weren't. :)

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   # 1.Geotagged_photo free tools to take out of photo
   # 2.Phone you can turn off
   # 3.web browser turn off

   https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/geolocation/

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolocation

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolocation_software

   http://browserspy.dk/geolocation.php

   Geolocation Information

   Find out where in the world you are. Use Geolocation to pinpoint your exact location.
   Test Result
   Geolocation supported in browser?
   Location based on IP address City: Auckland (my be my IP)
   Latitude: -36.8667
   Longitude: 174.7667

   http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/bill-would-keep-big-brothers-mitts-off-your-gps-data/

   Bill Would Keep Big Brother’s Mitts Off Your GPS Data

   “Americans have a reasonable expectation of privacy,” Chaffetz says. “Just because you use a device that has a geolocator on it doesn’t mean everyone should be able to follow you.”

   http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html

   http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Browser-Tweak/HostIP-info-Geolocation-Plugin.shtml

   How it works: Displays IP Trace information when you hover the mouse over a hyperlink, and the IP will show with the country and city the site is from.

   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg589499(v=VS.85).aspx

   The Geolocation API allows web applications to obtain geographic information about the computer or device running Windows Internet Explorer 9

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagged_photo

   A geotagged photograph is a photograph which is associated with a geographical location by geotagging. Usually this is done by assigning at least a latitude and longitude to the image, and optionally altitude, compass bearing and other fields may also be included.

   http://www.nv.ngb.army.mil/Army Geotagging Safety.pdf

   http://gizmodo.com/5892054/us-soldiers-are-giving-away-their-positions-with-geotagged-photos

   US Soldiers Are Giving Away Their Positions with Geotagged Photos

   People behave very stupidly on Facebook. But giving away your location in the geotagged info of your pictures as a member of the military is incredibly unwise and dangerous, even by Facebook standards.

   http://www.ehow.com/how_2031227_geotag-photo-flickr.html

   http://www.ehow.com/how_8247276_insert-geotagged-picture-google-maps.html

   https://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=43897

   View geotagged photos in Google Earth

   https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/technology/personaltech/12basics.html?_r=1

   The Web site ICanStalkU.com provides step-by-step instructions for disabling the photo geotagging function on iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm devices.

   http://icanstalku.com/how.php#disable

   http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-the-Potential-Risks-of-Geotagging

   If you want to wipe geotagging information from your photos, look for free EXIF editors online. These will help you to wipe that information from the photos.
   Don't check in to geotagging sites from home and don't include your GPS coordinates in your Twitter updates.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   waynos
   Member

   Thanks hotdoge3,heres another link.http://no-geolocation.blogspot.com.au/

   Posted 12 years ago #

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