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pierre
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 Posted - 02/09/2010 : 22:37:00
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Before you post photos online of your expensive new motorbike, classic car, or your latest valuable antique acquisition, you might want to stop and consider that computer-savvy burglars will probably be able to use that image to find out where you live. The same goes for pictures of your family, or anything else that you don't want strangers to be able to locate. Tracking people and things via posted photographs is known as "cybercasing" and it's possible because many digital cameras and smart phones, including the iPhone, automatically geotag images by embedding the longitude and latitude at which they were taken. Even after being uploaded to a Web page, the images can retain the location coordinates, which can be used with Multimap.com and services like Google Street View to find an address or nearby identifying landmark. In a report published by the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), researchers explain how they obtained the home addresses of people who had posted photos in online classified ads, despite having opted to keep their addresses hidden when using the advertising site.
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