Yiannis Kakavas, a 26-year-old Greek graduate student at Germany's Technischen Universität Darmstadt has invented an app called 'Creepy' that allows users to be located through a process called geo-tagging.
Described by Kakavas as a "geolocation information aggregator", Creepy analyzes a user's tweets, Facebook posts, and Flickr stream, generating a map of where that person is, as well as the specific locations they frequent.
Kakavas said he created the app to try and raise awareness about privacy in social networking platforms. He wanted to show how 'easy' it is to put together all the seemingly small and innocent things that people are sharing into a 'larger picture' on social media that potentially gives away information that users wouldn't normally think of sharing. For example, where do they live, where do they work, where and at what times they are hanging out, when they are not at home ect. He also says it's the social media users fault if Creepy works, because they are sharing too much online.
I think that people should be more wary of what they put online, especially with people HELPING creepers stalk by creating applications.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/04/creepy-app-for-stalkers-social-networking_n_844791.html
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For the record: I am not a creeper, and I DO NOT have this app! Thanks! :)
I agree that people give out way too much information on the internet. I do think it is funny why this app was created.
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