{"id":443,"date":"2011-03-02T09:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T14:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=443"},"modified":"2011-03-02T09:43:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T14:43:39","slug":"its-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/its-creepy\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you use Twitter, fewer use FourSquare (a \t\t\t\t\tFacebook-like site), and many of you use image-hosting sites \t\t\t\t\tlike Flickr. In an age where privacy is getting harder and \t\t\t\t\tharder to find, you still may be startled to learn, if you \t\t\t\t\tuse big social-networking sites or image-hosting\/sharing \t\t\t\t\tsites, your privacy has all but evaporated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Leave it to some developer to figure out a way to aggregate \t\t\t\t\tinformation from social networking and image hosting sites – \t\t\t\t\tand track users using their posts and photos sent from \t\t\t\t\tSmartphones.<\/p>\n

It’s creepy. Yes it is and it’s also called creepy.<\/p>\n

What is creepy?<\/p>\n

“A geolocation information aggregator. creepy is an \t\t\t\t\tapplication that allows you to gather geolocation related \t\t\t\t\tinformation about users from social networking platforms and \t\t\t\t\timage hosting services. The information is presented in a \t\t\t\t\tmap inside the application where all the retrieved data is \t\t\t\t\tshown accompanied with relevant information (i.e. what was \t\t\t\t\tposted from that specific location) to provide context to \t\t\t\t\tthe presentation.”<\/p>\n

If you really want to know more about this application – and \t\t\t\t\tit is free – you can read about it on the developer’s site \t\t\t\t\thttp:\/\/ilektrojohn.github.com\/creepy\/<\/a> . We’re not \t\t\t\t\trecommending it, we didn’t test it, we only researched it.<\/p>\n

The point is, privacy is getting harder and harder to find. \t\t\t\t\tRight now creepy only aggregates data from Twitter (with \t\t\t\t\tGeolocation turned on), FourSquare and a couple different \t\t\t\t\timage-hosting sites. But you can be sure that more of these \t\t\t\t\tkinds of programs will be cropping up and they’ll be \t\t\t\t\ttracking users of other social networking and image-hosting \t\t\t\t\tsites.<\/p>\n

It seems a lot of people these days have a real need to be connected to \t\t\t\t\teveryone all of the time – even going so far as to want \t\t\t\t\teveryone to know where they are all the time. Be careful when using social networking sites \t\t\t\t\tand image-hosting services that you don’t give away more \t\t\t\t\tinformation than you’re willing to make public…to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of you use Twitter, fewer use FourSquare (a Facebook-like site), and many of you use image-hosting sites like Flickr. In an age where privacy is getting harder and harder to find, you still may be startled to learn, if you use big social-networking sites or image-hosting\/sharing sites, your privacy has all but evaporated. Leave it to some\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[83,235,44,14,234,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}