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#geolocation

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skry

Strava’s #geolocation causes yet another national security incident this week as bodyguards in #Sweden map their run performances for the world to admire.

This problem has happened before, with the #PerverseIncentives of the #gamification and #privacy permutations that violate the least-surprise #ux principle. Here’s how to turn these privacy leaks off: lifehacker.com/health/stravas-

Heatmaps cause problems
bicycling.com/news/a44150917/r mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/11483

Lifehacker · Why Strava Is a Privacy Risk for the President (and You Too)Strava is a hugely popular, and really nicely featured, running and cycling app. It’s oumyr pick for the best running app, despite its flaws. But it’s always had serious privacy issues, including the one just reported by French newspaper Le Monde—it allegedly revealed the locations of world leaders via their bodyguards’ Strava accounts.
David Megginson

This CBC article (a free ad for a company trying to make location information closed and proprietary) contains exactly one useful bit of information, in a quote from a U Waterloo prof:

"I'm also wondering why the 911 operator couldn't have just pinged their phone and then relayed the [latitude and longitude] to police?" he also said in an email to CBC News.

#WhatThreeWords#geolocation#geodata
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Montana Becomes First State to Close the #LawEnforcement #DataBroker Loophole
Montana enacted #SB282, becoming first state to prohibit law enforcement from purchasing personal data they would otherwise need a #warrant to obtain. The legislation closes what #privacy advocates call "data broker loophole," which previously allowed #police to buy #geolocation data, electronic communications, and other sensitive information from third-party vendors without judicial oversight.
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/mont

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Montana Becomes First State to Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker LoopholeMontana has done something that many states and the United States Congress have debated but failed to do: it has just enacted the first attempt to close the dreaded, invasive, unconstitutional, but easily fixed “data broker loophole.” This is a very good step in the right direction because right...
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AI6YR Ben

Can anyone here identify this US military plane from 1963?

(also bonus if you are able to geolocate this spot before I do)

UPDATE: Pretty sure now (thanks folks!) that this plane is a Douglas C-54 Skymaster, based on the cowling and wing shape.

sfba.social/@pussreboots/11449

SFBA.socialSarah Sammis (@pussreboots@sfba.social)Attached: 1 image Here's another geolocation mystery. Again, it's 1963 and it's from the same roll that has aerial shots of Iran and Kuwait. @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org any ideas?
#aviation#planes#geolocation
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gavcloud

The subtitle icons themselves function as buttons, which re-direct to a note that is generated via a template containing a geomap widget, and the coordinates as the note title, stored when either of the two ViewToolbar buttons is pressed.

#tiddlywiki#digitalgarden#gps
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gavcloud

Now the subtitle—in addition to showing the timestamps—contains a location pin icon for the origin GPS coordinates, and a globe icon for the last modified version GPS coordinates.

These are set manually, just to keep things more intentional and optimized, via two new ViewToolbar buttons: fetch current coordinates (for the most recent coordinates) … and set created coordinates, which will populate fields for a tiddler's origin coords.

#tiddlywiki#digitalgarden#gps
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AI6YR Ben

@pussreboots

Looks like this is Ahmadabad, Iran. There is more buildup, but you can see the very large oil terminal in the top left and the river/canal, which is identical.

(looked for the major oil refinery/storage sites in Iran and compared the terrain).

30.3360, 48.3001

#geolocation fun LOL

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Nonilex

A pool of govt #data is especially powerful when combined w/private-sector data, such as… #mobile-#phone #geolocation data…could make inferences about actions, activities, or associates of…anybody perceived as a govt critic or #dissident.…The govt’s current use of combined data in service of #deportations—& its refusal to offer credible evidence of wrongdoing for some of those deported—suggests the admin is willing to use the data for #political aims.

#Trump#law#privacy
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