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+		<title>Creepy, visualise geotagged social media information - nice free software</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creepy__visualise_geotagged_social_media_information___nice_free_software.html</link>        
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+                <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 10:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Most people seem not to realise that every time they walk around
+with the computerised radio beacon known as a mobile phone their
+position is tracked by the phone company and often stored for a long
+time (like every time a SMS is received or sent).  And if their
+computerised radio beacon is capable of running programs (often called
+mobile apps) downloaded from the Internet, these programs are often
+also capable of tracking their location (if the app requested access
+during installation).  And when these programs send out information to
+central collection points, the location is often included, unless
+extra care is taken to not send the location.  The provided
+information is used by several entities, for good and bad (what is
+good and bad, depend on your point of view).  What is certain, is that
+the private sphere and the right to free movement is challenged and
+perhaps even eradicated for those announcing their location this way,
+when they share their whereabouts with private and public
+entities.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;70%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-01-24-nice-creepy-desktop-window.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The phone company logs provide a register of locations to check out
+when one want to figure out what the tracked person was doing.  It is
+unavailable for most of us, but provided to selected government
+officials, company staff, those illegally buying information from
+unfaithful servants and crackers stealing the information.  But the
+public information can be collected and analysed, and a free software
+tool to do so is called
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geocreepy.com/&quot;&gt;Creepy or Cree.py&lt;/a&gt;.  I
+discovered it when I read
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Slik-kan-du-bli-overvaket-pa-Twitter-og-Instagram-uten-a-ane-det-7787884.html&quot;&gt;an
+article about Creepy&lt;/a&gt; in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten i
+November 2014, and decided to check if it was available in Debian.
+The python program was in Debian, but
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/creepy&quot;&gt;the version in
+Debian&lt;/a&gt; was completely broken and practically unmaintained.  I
+uploaded a new version which did not work quite right, but did not
+have time to fix it then.  This Christmas I decided to finally try to
+get Creepy operational in Debian.  Now a fixed version is available in
+Debian unstable and testing, and almost all Debian specific patches
+are now included
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jkakavas/creepy&quot;&gt;upstream&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The Creepy program visualises geolocation information fetched from
+Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and Google+, and allow one to get a
+complete picture of every social media message posted recently in a
+given area, or track the movement of a given individual across all
+these services.  Earlier it was possible to use the search API of at
+least some of these services without identifying oneself, but these
+days it is impossible.  This mean that to use Creepy, you need to
+configure it to log in as yourself on these services, and provide
+information to them about your search interests.  This should be taken
+into account when using Creepy, as it will also share information
+about yourself with the services.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The picture above show the twitter messages sent from (or at least
+geotagged with a position from) the city centre of Oslo, the capital
+of Norway.  One useful way to use Creepy is to first look at
+information tagged with an area of interest, and next look at all the
+information provided by one or more individuals who was in the area.
+I tested it by checking out which celebrity provide their location in
+twitter messages by checkout out who sent twitter messages near a
+Norwegian TV station, and next could track their position over time,
+making it possible to locate their home and work place, among other
+things.  A similar technique have been
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/does-this-soldiers-instagram-account-prove-russia-is-covertl&quot;&gt;used
+to locate Russian soldiers in Ukraine&lt;/a&gt;, and it is both a powerful
+tool to discover lying governments, and a useful tool to help people
+understand the value of the private information they provide to the
+public.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The package is not trivial to backport to Debian Stable/Jessie, as
+it depend on several python modules currently missing in Jessie (at
+least python-instagram, python-flickrapi and
+python-requests-toolbelt).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;(I have uploaded
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://screenshots.debian.net/package/creepy&quot;&gt;the image to
+screenshots.debian.net&lt;/a&gt; and licensed it under the same terms as the
+Creepy program in Debian.)&lt;/p&gt;
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