Geo-Tagging: Opting-In to Total Surveillance

Presented at The Next HOPE (2010), July 17, 2010, 3 p.m. (60 minutes).

Many social networks allow users to expose geo-locational data. For example, Twitter allows each tweet to be tagged with the GPS location of the user. While perhaps harmless individually, once aggregated, these geo-tagged tweets can be used to build a profile of the user, revealing far more personal information than intended. A tool that aggregates tweets and helps visualize and classify where people are tweeting from will be demonstrated and the implications discussed.


Presenters:

  • Paul V
    Paul V is a grad student in Toronto trying to figure out why people geo-tag tweets, what they get out of it, and what the risks are.

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