[HIB]Geo-tags in celeb pics, a boon for stalkers

Tech savvy stalkers can now easily figure out celebrities' home addresses, as the stars aren't taking care when they upload pictures containing geo-tags, letting thieves know their exact location, say US computer scientists. The researchers have shown that address information can be gleaned from photo and video sharing sites, via geo-tags- latitude and longitude data. Often geo tags are added automatically to material captured by devices such as smartphones, reports New Scientist. To illustrate how easy it is to get this information, Gerald Friedland and Robin Sommer at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, have created software that identifies YouTube videos shot close to their institute and tagged with words like "home".

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