Posted on Jan 11, 2021
Parler users unknowingly gave away personal information storming Capitol Hill
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Insurrectionists that stormed Capitol Hill and uploaded videos to the right-wing social media app Parler gave away their GPS coordinates to the app.
That data has now been scraped and archived by researchers, who could use the data to help identify criminals.
Many rioters including the Proud Boys - a Southern Poverty Law Center designated hate group – shared videos on the app, but hacker “@donk_enby” on Twitter has shown that the metadata (information about the content uploaded, such as number of megapixels in the videos or rotation) includes GPS positioning.
That data has now been scraped and archived by researchers, who could use the data to help identify criminals.
Many rioters including the Proud Boys - a Southern Poverty Law Center designated hate group – shared videos on the app, but hacker “@donk_enby” on Twitter has shown that the metadata (information about the content uploaded, such as number of megapixels in the videos or rotation) includes GPS positioning.
Parler users unknowingly gave away personal information storming Capitol Hill
Posted from independent.co.uk
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They should be punished as the law dictates -- that's a privilege they earned
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CSM Chuck Stafford
MSgt Dale Johnson - That's a different kind of privilege and shall not be spoken of
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CSM Chuck Stafford
MSgt Dale Johnson - I agree that all should be prosecuted to the fullest extent equally -- but like Animal Farm, some are apparently more equal than others
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