Cat stalker knows where your kitty lives (and it’s your fault) by Lisa Vaas.
From the post:
Ever posted a picture of your cat online?
Unless your privacy settings avoid making APIs publicly available on sites like Flickr, Twitpic, Instagram or the like, there’s a cat stalker who knows where your liddl’ puddin’ lives, and he’s totally pwned your pussy by geolocating it.
That’s right, fat-faced grey one from Al Khobar in Saudi Arabia, Owen Mundy knows you live on Tabari Street.
Mundy, a data analyst, artist, and Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Florida State University, has been working on the data visualisation project, which is called I Know Where Your Cat Lives.
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See Lisa’s post for the details about the “I Know Where Your Cat Lives” project.
The same data leakage is found in other types of photographs as well. Such as photographs by military personnel.
An enterprising collector could use geolocation as a merge point to collect all the photos made at a particular location. Or using geolocation ask “who?” for some location X.
Or perhaps a city map using geolocated images to ask “who?” Everyone may not know your name but with a large enough base of users, someone will.
PS: There is at least one app for facial recognition, NameTag. I don’t have a cellphone so you will have to comment on how well it works. I still like the idea of a “who?” site. Perhaps because I prefer human intell over data vacuuming.