A burglary suspect was arrested last week on charges of using the geographic coordinates of photos from Instagram and Facebook to find female students and then break into their homes and steal their underwear.
Do you like to upload public photos of yourself to social media? Then listen to this: The Fullerton, California Police Department announced yesterday that 44time Arturo Galvan is likely the offender behind 6 burglaries dating back to October of 2015 with 24 women victims.
Η police reports that Galvan was finding women who were online and sharing photos publicly through him 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.
