{"id":1782,"date":"2009-01-29T07:01:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2009-01-27T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T14:02:07","slug":"we-know-where-you-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"We Know Where You Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has a rather arresting article on the &#8220;Location-Aware Lifestyle&#8221; we&#8217;re now living with social media sites and software like Flickr, Twitter, blogs, FaceBook, etc., etc., etc.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To test whether I was being paranoid, I ran a little experiment. On a sunny Saturday, I spotted a woman in Golden Gate Park taking a photo with a 3G iPhone. Because iPhones embed geodata into photos that users upload to Flickr or Picasa, iPhone shots can be automatically placed on a map. At home I searched the Flickr map, and score&#8211;a shot from today. I clicked through to the user&#8217;s photostream and determined it was the woman I had seen earlier. After adjusting the settings so that only her shots appeared on the map, I saw a cluster of images in one location. Clicking on them revealed photos of an apartment interior&#8211;a bedroom, a kitchen, a filthy living room. Now I know where she lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Y&#8217;know, I work with computers for a living, and I keep an eye on developing technology, and every time I wonder if I&#8217;m being too paranoid I discover that I&#8217;m not being paranoid <em>enough<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgets\/wireless\/magazine\/17-02\/lp_guineapig?currentPage=all\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has a rather arresting article on the &#8220;Location-Aware Lifestyle&#8221; we&#8217;re now living with social media sites and software like Flickr, Twitter, blogs, FaceBook, etc., etc., etc. To test whether I was being paranoid, I ran a little experiment. On a sunny Saturday, I spotted a woman in Golden Gate Park taking a photo with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}