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Just checked this. I took some pics on a regular digital camera (no GPS) in Indore. I uploaded them from New Delhi a few weeks later. And now FB is asking me "
by jagira 15y ago
Just checked this.
I took some pics on a regular digital camera (no GPS) in Indore. I uploaded them from New Delhi a few weeks later. And now FB is asking me "Were these pics taken in Indore?". Crazy shit.
Update - I dug through my FB updates. Just before leaving for airport, I updated my status to "Off to Indore" and after coming back to New Delhi, I had some status updates about my office and a local park. Facebook is probably using the the timestamps from image and relating it to locations using some heuristics like status updates, IP addresses, image recognition etc.
- kokey 15y agoI think you are actually getting to the bottom of it. A combination of timestamps, and status updates, and probably that of friends tagged in the same album. Could be quite effective, as we can see.
- forensic 15y agoyeah this is by far most likely. The guy's wife or whatever had her phone turned on while in labour, facebook knows her GPS coords, facebook knows she's his wife, and so on doesnt take much to throw out a guess based on a single GPS location + timestamp. Even if the guess is only right 5% of the time it is still a profitable guess to make.