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By: Saira Canales On September 1st, 2019, a Japanese pop star was followed from the train station and was taken advantage of in her own home. A man the news named Hibiki Sato was able to find the location of a local pop star in Japan. The name of this young pop star and the actual name of the predator were not revealed, mainly for safety reasons. He was able to find her exact location through the reflection of her eyes. Just by seeing the train station through the eyes of the young pop star, he was able to go onto the Street View on Google Maps and see the actual train station she was at. He was able to find the best way to break into her home by what she posted on social media, including where the windows, doors, and furniture were located so he could find his way in and out. Now that phone cameras are becoming more and more precise, it is becoming increasingly easier to find where a person is at using just a selfie. Even videos of her in front of a curation showed which way the natural lighting was pointing, allowing him to determine which floor she was on. Elliot Higgins, the founder of the investigations site Bellingcat, has stated, "Higher quality images allow for more details to be identified that can help with geolocation, and the more reference imagery there is from services like Google Street View, the higher chance there is of finding a location”. Putting aside the fact the camera quality on phones are getting better, we have to acknowledge the fact that there are multiple resources online that can help track down a person. Just by typing in a name you can have multiple images of that person, or putting a picture in Google Recognition can give you all the information online about the person. When you post a picture online you can disable the location so none of your followers know where you are, but even then you can still be tracked down. Digital pictures have something called “metadata”. This is very useful to photographers so they can know the focal length and the photo exposure itself. But what is also included is the time and place where the photo was taken. Regardless of what photo is taken, when, where, or what setting you put it on, you can still be found with the technologies we have today, especially because of the insane speed at which technology is growing.
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