Collaborate Disseminate
I haven’t granted location privileges to the Google Maps website. If I choose a destination for a route, and then click the suggestion Your location for an origin, the browser prompts to grant the location privilege. If I then click Block,… Continue reading How does Google Maps guess my location without browser permissions or Google account permissions? [duplicate]
Perhaps the opposite of an information security question:
Consider a hypothetical where my associate and I have been accused of being the same person abusing multiple accounts on an online forum.
Administrators have the power to look up t… Continue reading How can I access the internet in a way that proves my physical location?
While we absolutely support the right of everyone to express their opinions, it seems to us that it’s rarely wise to turn your vehicle into a mobile billboard for your …read more Continue reading AI-Powered Bumper Sticker Provides Context-Sensitive Urban Camouflage
I know about Wi-Fi geolocation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system), but I’ve never gotten a clear answer on whether or not there is anything similar with Bluetooth. The scenario is someone uses a wired connection (Wi-F… Continue reading Can bluetooth expose laptop location? [closed]
How can iplocation.net know my country if I use a VPN thru Opera Mini on Android?
Accessing myip.com it says "no country".
But accessing iplocation.net shows my real city and provider! And a different IP address from myip.com, of… Continue reading How can iplocation.net know my country if I use a VPN thru Opera Mini on Android? [duplicate]
Wow:
To test PIGEON’s performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago, none of which have been published online. Some photos were snapped in cities, but a few were taken in places nowhere near roads or other easily recognizable landmarks.
That didn’t seem to matter much.
It guessed a campsite in Yellowstone to within around 35 miles of the actual location. The program placed another photo, taken on a street in San Francisco, to within a few city blocks.
Not every photo was an easy match: The program mistakenly linked one photo taken on the front range of Wyoming to a spot along the front range of Colorado, more than a hundred miles away. And it guessed that a picture of the Snake River Canyon in Idaho was of the Kawarau Gorge in New Zealand (in fairness, the two landscapes look remarkably similar)…
Continue reading AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos
Google Maps now stores location data locally on your device, meaning that Google no longer has that data to turn over to the police.
Continue reading Google Stops Collecting Location Data from Maps
Today I wanted to visit https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4999 to conduct some scientific research. Upon loading the page, I was greeted with a text saying Russia (the country I’m in) and Belarus are blocked from visiting this website.
This… Continue reading How is this website able to determine my country? [closed]
Apple AirTags are great in that they don’t come with a service subscription fee, but they sadly alert thieves who have Apple devices that the stolen item is being tracked giving the thief a chance to find and remove the tag. What is the ne… Continue reading What is a good alternative anti-theft tracker to Apple AirTags that don’t tip off thieves to their use in stolen items?
I used to use an HTTP Proxy in Chrome on my Mac to stream content from another country but recently I noticed that the streaming site was able to identify that I wasn’t physically in the same country and would block me from viewing content… Continue reading HTTP Proxy no longer working for streaming site