He and a colleague, Robin Sommer, wrote a paper, “ Cybercasing the Joint: On the Privacy Implications of Geotagging,” which they presented on Tuesday at a workshop in Washington during the Advanced Computing Systems Association’s annual conference on security. “Any 16 year-old with basic programming skills can do this,” said Gerald Friedland, a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. There are also pictures of people at their friends’ houses or at the Starbucks they visit each morning.īy downloading free browser plug-ins like the Exif Viewer for Firefox (/en-US/firefox/addon/3905/) or Opanda IExif for Internet Explorer (/en/iexif/), anyone can pinpoint the location where the photo was taken and create a Google map.
Others reveal expensive cars, computers and flat-screen televisions.
Many of the pictures show people’s children playing in or around their homes. Their lectures and papers demonstrate the ubiquity of geotagged photos and videos on Web sites like Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Craigslist, and how these photos can be used to identify a person’s home and haunts.
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The Web site provides step-by-step instructions for disabling the photo geotagging function on iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm devices.Ī person’s location is also revealed while using services like Foursquare and Gowalla as well as when posting to Twitter from a GPS-enabled mobile device, but the geographical data is not hidden as it is when posting photos.Ī handful of academic researchers and independent Web security analysts, who call themselves “white hat hackers,” have been trying to raise awareness about geotags by releasing studies and giving presentations at technology get-togethers like the Hackers On Planet Earth, or Next HOPE, conference held last month in New York.
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