Okay, first let’s get the obvious thing out of the way. The internet was invented*to share cat videos and images. Everything else is by accident. Period! (Although, dogs would have been a better reason to do so, well thats a debate for another day).
Majority of the apps that we use today, require location access and while some of them may collect location data in the background, most apps utilise location data whenever we voluntarily send it to their servers – geotagged tweets, Instagram pictures, the list goes on.
While the background tracking is harder to monitor, its rather easy to ensure that our geotagged internet stuff are not a privacy problem. But then we already knew all this, didn’t we?
How do you get the world to take Location privacy seriously? With the every same thing that is*the cornerstone of the internet – cat images and videos!
I Know Where Your Cat Lives
IKnowWhereYourCatLives.com is at the same time a hilarious and scary website that showcases the pitfalls of sharing our location on the internet where it tends to live forever!
In order to protect the privacy of the cats (and sometimes wrongly tagged pictures of real people), no pictures have been shown in this article
Majority of the apps that we use today, require location access and while some of them may collect location data in the background, most apps utilise location data whenever we voluntarily send it to their servers – geotagged tweets, Instagram pictures, the list goes on.
While the background tracking is harder to monitor, its rather easy to ensure that our geotagged internet stuff are not a privacy problem. But then we already knew all this, didn’t we?
How do you get the world to take Location privacy seriously? With the every same thing that is*the cornerstone of the internet – cat images and videos!
I Know Where Your Cat Lives
IKnowWhereYourCatLives.com is at the same time a hilarious and scary website that showcases the pitfalls of sharing our location on the internet where it tends to live forever!
In order to protect the privacy of the cats (and sometimes wrongly tagged pictures of real people), no pictures have been shown in this article