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The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds

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For months members of the public have been using GeoSpy, a tool trained on millions of images that can find the location a photo was taken based on soil, architecture, and more. It's GeoGuesser at scale.

And I just assumed they called Rainbolt

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The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds

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The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds

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It was free but mostly used by stalkers. It was very accurate. Now it's closed to the public because it's very profitable, and only the police are using it. Congrats to the developers! You made it. You sold your neighbors' safety to the oligarchs and their goons and now you can retire on a yacht, fanning yourself with money while the world burns.
- Seriously. Fuck all the tech and programmer guys helping to accelerate our doom and subjugation.
  
  Which excludes FOSS maintainers. Who should be well funded to protect our tech stacks from neglect.
  Whatever you are scared of.
  I'm scared of this more
  
  foss spyware is still spyware
  
  Nope it's pentesting. Gotta keep up with IT terminology. If the author didn't intend it, it's malware.
  If any spyware or back doors are found, foss community can quickly deal with it.
  This happened with xz, a rogue maintainer snuck in malware which was by chance found. But there would be no chance if it were closed source or talented maintainers were so appreciated by society that they were mourned after starving to death.
  
  foss spyware is still spyware
  Honestly it's a bit trickier. I listened to the podcast episode and my 1st thought was like "Damn... obviously bad" and during the FOSS part I couldn't but think "Ah... for my photo with missing EXIF GPS data... that'd be neat" specifically because I'm using Immich to host my photo on my server. Now Immich has face recognition, cf https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/main/machine-learning and more. Would it be wrong to extend it?
  
  the programmers should at least use licenses that prevent legal use by the police and government agencies.
  
  LOL. Rules and laws are for the working class. Even if selling the data elsewhere or to a shell corporation wouldn't work, some other legal fiction would be invented for the occasion.
  And this isn't a recent phenomenon, this is just how we've always lived our lives.
  America was never great, but it could be.
- Maybe this is why they want to expand the limitations for work visas. Bring people in who tend not to ask questions… Not at first, anyway. It takes a while to get the hang of how this American corporate greed thing works.

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