Our Research in the News
The Berkeley Multimodal Location Estimation Project
Our work on location estimation was featured by a leading industry news source:
Cybercasing/Global Inference & Online Privacy
Our work on cybercasing, or using GPS-tagged or localizable images to infer the current location of a person or a valuable object, has been featured in major national news outlets:
- The New York Times: Web Photos That Reveal Secrets, Like Where You Live
- The Atlantic: How Tech-Savvy Thieves Could ‘Cybercase’ Your House
- ABC News/Good Morning America: Celebrities’ Photos, Videos May Reveal Location
- New Scientist: Geotags Reveal Celeb Secrets
Joke-O-Mat and the Meeting Diarist
Our video-navigation interfaces, Joke-O-Mat and the Meeting Diarist, got coverage when they were demonstrated at an Intel R&D day:
SMASH/Scalable Big Data Analysis
Our work with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories to process Yahoo’s Yahoo Flickr Creative Commons 100 Million (YFCC100M) dataset made the news:
Teaching Privacy
The first educational app we produced for the Teaching Privacy project, “Ready or Not?“, has been generating a lot of buzz:
- CBS Bay Area (KPIX): Social Media Users May Be Revealing Too Much About Location
- Wired UK: Mapping Websites Reveal Just How Stupid It Is to Geotag Your Tweets
- Fast Company: Privacy App Pinpoints Your Exact Location Using Social Media
- GigaOM: This Tool Lets You Stalk Twitter Users to Teach Them a Lesson About Privacy