From location data alone, even low-tech snoopers can identify Twitter users' homes, workplaces

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 - 07:20 in Psychology & Sociology

Researchers at MIT and Oxford University have shown that the location stamps on just a handful of Twitter posts—as few as eight over the course of a single day—can be enough to disclose the addresses of the poster's home and workplace to a relatively low-tech snooper.

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