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#geolocation

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AI6YR Ben

I don't have time to go geolocate this right at the second, but I bet someone might recognize this postcard (1940's) -- labeled "Unidentified Californian Hillside"

Looks like an estate/mansion/castle, consistent with Lockwod Valley/Frazier Park/Gorman/Lake Hughes/Leona Valley/Acton (perhaps farther South), IMHO.

social.vivaldi.net/@Vibracobra

Monochrome real photographic postcard showing a desert hillside, probably in California, but not known. Publisher not stated, not numbered, Agfa Ansco stamp box, c.1930s-40s. Postally unused. Very good condition, with very slight corner bumps.
Vivaldi SocialCornovia Postcards (@Vibracobra23@vivaldi.net)Attached: 1 image An Unidentified Californian Hillside, c.1940 - Agfa Ansco RPPC https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/an-unidentified-californian-hillside-c-1940-agfa-ansco-rppc-222894260.htm #California
#geolocation
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.
Schneier on Security RSS

Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel

Once you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it:
A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtai... schneier.com/blog/archives/202

Schneier on Security · Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel - Schneier on SecurityOnce you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it: A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone records and use Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency’s informants in 2018, according to a new US justice department report. The incident was disclosed in a justice department inspector general’s audit of the FBI’s efforts to mitigate the effects of “ubiquitous technical surveillance,” a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data...
#Uncategorized#surveillance#geolocation
>LEAKLIV:/ Alternative Media

🇱🇾 Unidentified gunmen stormed a security compound in Surman, west of #Tripoli earlier this morning, targeting the Internal Security (intelligence) service unit, local police station, and passport investigations unit. One police deputy was killed, and a cruiser destroyed.

• Early signs suggest reactivation of dormant ISIS cells amid growing instability, clashes, and political turmoil in GNU-controlled western #Libya.

→#Geolocation:
🗺️ Coordinates: 32.755397,12.574952

>LEAKLIV:/

oxidand

> IP tells you where the request comes from, that’s it. It doesn’t tell you what language the user wants, speaks, or even understands. It fails all the time — VPNs, travel, people living abroad, countries with multiple official languages. This isn’t cleverness, it gives outright annoyance.

vitonsky.net/blog/2025/05/17/l

And that's like 99.99% of all websites with the language selector...

vitonsky.netDon't Guess My LanguageIf you’re still using IP geolocation to decide what language to show, stop screwing around. It’s a broken assumption dressed up as a feature.
#language#geolocation#localization
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
rexi

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-

post- #Dobbs legal landscape…opened the door for #lawenforcement to exploit virtually any form of data—license plates, phone records, #geolocation data—to pursue individuals across state lines…more than 1,800 agencies have deployed ALPRs, but at least 4,000 agencies are able to run searches through some agencies in Flock's network…share the data freely with other agencies across the country, with little oversight, restriction, or even standards for accessing data.

Electronic Frontier Foundation · She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down.We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Lawmakers who support reproductive rights must recognize that abortion access and mass surveillance are incompatible. The systems built to track stolen cars and issue parking tickets have become tools to enforce the most personal and politically charged laws in the country.
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