Bonnie Russell was having lunch with a friend in a pub near Detroit when she got a wake-up call—one that actually came on her cell. A few minutes earlier, she had used the phone to snap a photo of her lunchtime combo: "A lot of seriously unhealthy fried crap" she called it when she posted it on Twitter with the wry title "Lunch of champions." She received a tweet back from a total stranger who had found her public Twitter feed and used it to track down the neighborhood where she was having lunch at that very moment.
Lucky for Bonnie, the stranger was information security engineer Ben Jackson, cofounder of ICanStalkU.com, a watchdog website that alerts Twitter users about the dangers of geotags. Bonnie, 40, was shocked—she works in digital marketing and considers herself a pretty educated user of technology. "I'm very concerned with what kind of data I share with the public," she says. "And I thought I had disabled any functions on my phone and Twitter that might broadcast my location."
Source: http://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/cyber-crime
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