How Video Recordings are locatable by whoever puts the effort (cybernews.com)
from madeindex@lemmy.world to privacy@lemmy.ml on 06 Nov 18:11
https://lemmy.world/post/54070286

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/54070272

When uploading a real recording, there is a good chance your location & therefore possibly your identity can be revealed from the footage itself.

  1. You can triangulate low volume background sounds such as air planes: cybernews.com/…/aircraft-doppler-audio-geolocatio…

  2. You can check the position of the sun/moon/stars, shadows, weather…: bellingcat.com/…/using-the-sun-and-the-shadows-fo…

If Streamers & Journalists CAN do it, government agencies ARE doing it.

If you need privacy be aware of this when recording / editing friends <3

#privacy

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Hiro8811@lemmy.world on 07 Nov 09:29 next collapse

Not any air planes it needs to be a propeller plane.

pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr on 08 Nov 10:07 collapse

I’ve watched the full video and from what I understood, it does not need yo be a propeller plane. They recognized a propeller plane from the audio, and used this info to narrow down the ads-b dataset, but it could have worked with any other type of plane as long as you can find a Doppler curve in the spectrogram