Please Rob Me

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Please Rob Me was created by a Dutch developer to make a point about the ubiquity of private information being distributed through services like Twitter.

A Dutch developer has created a website called Please Rob Me that takes Twitter data and compiles a list of people who say they are away from home and at a restaurant or movie—with geocoded information and the likelihood of an empty house being broadcast throughout the Internet.

The site, of course, was created to make a point, not encourage robbery, as we struggle to make sense of what new technologies mean for our notions of privacy and safety. —JCL

The BBC:

A website called PleaseRobMe claims to reveal the location of empty homes based on what people post online.

The Dutch developers told BBC News the site was designed to prove a point about the dangers of sharing precise location information on the internet.

The site scrutinises players of online game Foursquare, which is based on a person’s location in the real world.

PleaseRobMe extracts information from players who have chosen to post their whereabouts automatically onto Twitter.

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The Left Wing, the populace, saved the banks revenue stream, now the the Right Wing, the banks, unappreciative of what the populace has done, within a year are raising their interest rates on the populace’s loans, apparently the banks want all the money, who cares about the populace, they aren’t deserving to keep any of their profit.

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