Forget about all of the privacy problems, there is no way this can ever be inaccurate! /s

I remember a few years ago there was an initiative encouraging people to take pictures of their hotel rooms as they checked in (to get them in the fresh state) and provide them to a non-profit, with the idea that they could compare those images with photos of persons who were being trafficked and advertised on prostitution sites or in CSAM images to try to identify where the victims were or had been. It seemed like a noble idea but I never heard more about it. I guess this is one of those things where the theory sounds good, but in practice it’s ripe for abuse (as mentioned in this article, initially the tool was open to anyone and there were users on the company’s Discord trying to use it to stalk women).

The best part about this is when the previous tenants of your home go off and commit a crime and then you have a swat team break down your door, kill your dog, shoot your spouse, and beat you within an inch of your life before realizing you aren’t a 400 lb [invert your color] man from Upakiztan.

[...] have bought access to Raven, which was previously called GeoSpy.

Oh no our service sounds scary, let's fix that!

That ppl trust the powerful with information about them is insane to me and always has been.

It’d be pretty fucking funny if they were pretending to do some fancy image analysis with the theatrical graphics while in reality, just pulling GPS coordinates from the EXIF data.

Thanks Meta VR!

Tech bros and cops can’t put a stop to their constant spy kink. This only seems to affect properties with public listings to source photos from, but if you have any sort of cloud-connected cameras in your home, get rid of them now. I guarantee they will use those cameras the same way to compare against archived realtor listings.

There are no words. AI couldn't turn a profit as an assistant, so now every hotel and Airbnb has been indexed and the only use for this is surveillance capitalism branded as safety.

A classic situation... LEO had lots of this information originally (as well as people contributing to it - taking pictures of hotels/Airbnbs/etc), for being able to help pinpointing child abusers... but as usual, they can't stop moving the goalposts.

This used to be a human job https://www.traffickcam.com/

Wasn't there an article about the wifi being used as an echolocation device, providing realtime mapping and positioning? Or did I wander in too deep into the tinfoil area?

And this is how I become tin-foil hat man, randomly rearranging things in my home, lest the spy satellites find my location... sad times

probably also using google maps too.

I’m starting to think a photo might be worth more than a thousand words

Keep the home in a constantly shifting mess of clutter, got it!