Creepy - ‘geolocation information aggregator’
Creepy is a software package for Linux or Windows - with a Mac OS X port in the works - that aims to gather public information on a targeted individual via social networking services in order to pinpoint their location. It’s remarkably efficient at its job, even in its current early form, and certainly lives up to its name when you see it in use for the first time.
You can enter a Twitter or Flickr username into the software’s interface, or use the in-built search utility to find users of interest. When you hit the ‘Geolocate Target’ button, Creepy goes off and uses the services’ APIs to download every photo or tweet they’ve ever published, analysing each for that critical piece of information: the user’s location at the time.While Twitter’s geolocation setting is optional, images shared on the service via sites like Twitpic and Yfrog are often taken on a smartphone - which, unbeknownst to the user, records the location information in the EXIF data of the image. Creepy finds these photos, downloads them, and extracts the location data.
The above is an extract from thinq article, ‘Creepy app warns of an end to privacy’, which continues with an interview with the maker.
Creepy - ‘geolocation information aggregator’
Creepy is a software package for Linux or Windows - with a Mac OS X port in the works - that aims to gather public information on a targeted individual via social networking services in order to pinpoint their location. It’s remarkably efficient at its job, even in its current early form, and certainly lives up to its name when you see it in use for the first time.
You can enter a Twitter or Flickr username into the software’s interface, or use the in-built search utility to find users of interest. When you hit the ‘Geolocate Target’ button, Creepy goes off and uses the services’ APIs to download every photo or tweet they’ve ever published, analysing each for that critical piece of information: the user’s location at the time.While Twitter’s geolocation setting is optional, images shared on the service via sites like Twitpic and Yfrog are often taken on a smartphone - which, unbeknownst to the user, records the location information in the EXIF data of the image. Creepy finds these photos, downloads them, and extracts the location data.
The above is an extract from thinq article, ‘Creepy app warns of an end to privacy’, which continues with an interview with the maker.
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4chan is gonna love this
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Maybe I’m weird, but I totally love this stuff. I want heat-mapping for my life. I want some sort of tracking for my...
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I think the loss of privacy is troubling, but it’s something society has decided they like. Even iPhones come with...
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this is Disgusting. What can we do to get this sort of thing shut down and banned forever?
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Ohoho. I need to mine my photo archive for EXIF data, too~
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u better believe i just downloaded and installed. hide yo kids, hide yo husbands, hide yo wifes, kos ima be creepin on...
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And this just publishes the data a person knowingly and willing publishes.
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disgusting
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