How your tweets reveal your home location

Geotagged tweets and images can breach privacy walls and even cost lives: But it also raises privacy issues, particularly when users are unaware, or forget that, their tweets are geotagged. Various celebrities are thought to have given away their home locations in this way. And in 2007, four Apache helicopters belonging to the US Army were destroyed by mortars in Iraq when insurgents worked out their location using geotagged images published by American soldiers. ∞ Read this on The Loop