A burglary suspect was arrested last week on charges of using the geographical coordinates of photos from Instagram and Facebook to find female students and then break into their homes and steal their underwear.
Σας αρέσει να ανεβάζετε δημόσιες φωτογραφίες σας στα social media ? Then listen to this: The Fullerton, California Police Department announced yesterday ότι ο 44χρονος Arturo Galvan είναι πιθανά ο δράστης πίσω από 6 διαρρήξεις που χρονολογούνται από τον Οκτώβριο του 2015 με θύματα 24 γυναίκες.
Police say Galvan was finding women who were on the internetwork and who shared photos publicly through it Instagram and Facebook. Then he found the GPS coordinates that existed in the photo tag, depicted these coordinates on a map, and used location data to locate the homes where the protagonists lived.
Galvan then invaded the homes, while women were often inside them and stole women's underwear and sometimes some valuables.
Galvan was arrested last Thursday after 3 hours of manhunt in a neighborhood of Fullerton. He faces charges of theft, acceptance of crime and voyeurism.
Fullerton PD says – and we wholeheartedly agree – that the above story is a cautionary tale about shared, public photo sharing, and cautions the public to check their privacy data as well as photo tags listed on location and which they post on the internet.
