Man arrested for stalking pop star he found by studying reflections in her eyes

[JJonas]

Saw this and thought of Bladerunner, scary and fascinating at the same time.

 

https://news.sky.com/story/man-arrested-in-japan-over-stalking-pop-star-he-found-by-studying-reflections-of-her-pupils-in-photos-she-shared-on-social-media-11832870

 

 

 

Mods: Please move this if you can think of a better place for it.

[Oaktech]

Not difficult...

 

There is a blogger local to me who posts a lot of things on social media: including her house renovations, a picture in the corridor of her office, a view from her kids sailing club, a selfie in her favourite coffee shop, because I'm local I can casually recognise from those photos *exactly* where she lives, works and places she frequents. I'm not a weirdo and I'm not going to do anything with that information, but someone else might, and google streetview would let someone who wasn't local do it.

[mikeprice]

many years ago I had to have a word with the father of one of my daughter's friends

 

she was happily posting videos on YouTube - just silly childish stories with puppets she had made out of household rubbish

she was about 7 or 8 at the time

 

 

problem was that you could see her in her school jumper - and read the name of the school

and she had a 'stage' set up by the window - so you could see out of it - towards the stream and bridge

 

 

so basically with a bit of effort and Google Maps you could identify her exact house and bedroom

 

her father was horrified - and grateful - and he was a police officer so he thought he was on top of all that stuff but he hadn't put 2 and 2 together

 

I heard the next Monday that she and her Dad had spent the weekend building a new bigger stage for her puppets complete with a full background sheet

and she had been gently told about videos with school jumpers in them

 

she mobilise her friends to remake all the stories with new improved puppets - because the originals had all had to be taken down

[LeMarchand]

Saw this and thought of Bladerunner

 

I thought of...

 

[mikeprice]

I thought of...

 

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NO - I am not looking at that properly

 

just what the *** was that!!!

[sonofsanta]

High resolution cameras are a nightmare for privacy in all sorts of unexpected and scary ways. Remember this? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/30/hacker-fakes-german-ministers-fingerprints-using-photos-of-her-hands

 

[ETA: just seen it's referenced at the end of the OP's article. That's what I get for overeager posting!]

[hardtailstar]

Not difficult...

 

There is a blogger local to me who posts a lot of things on social media: including her house renovations, a picture in the corridor of her office, a view from her kids sailing club, a selfie in her favourite coffee shop, because I'm local I can casually recognise from those photos *exactly* where she lives, works and places she frequents. I'm not a weirdo and I'm not going to do anything with that information, but someone else might, and google streetview would let someone who wasn't local do it.

 

A celebrity lives near me and posts similar stuff. I know roughly where they live and their routine.

 

So i'd agree its not difficult. even if you're not local!