Twitter + Location = "We Know Your House".(NSS).By Anna Brading. Yesterday, we wrote about how Michael Dell's daughter had been too open with details of her family's activities and location, and gave some advice on how to post wisely on social networks. One of our readers, James, then left a comment on the story alerting us to WeKnowYourHouse.com.
Calling itself "another social networking privacy experiment", WeKnowYourHouse scours Twitter for people using the word "home" in their tweets and picks up their associated geolocation, then publishes said tweet to its site along with information about where the tweeter is. The site tells you where the person is, plots them on a map, shows you the Google Street View picture of that location, tells you nearby places they've found on Foursquare, crime statistics for the area, local photos posted to Instagram near that location, and even shows an advert where you can "Meet local sl**s". Nice. The site promises that it only keeps the last hour of data, and then fully deletes it, but it's scary to see how much information can be compiled against someone so quickly, using information that is freely available.Read the full story here.
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