Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Naked Security: Stalker found pop star by searching eyes’ reflections on Google Maps

Stalker found pop star by searching eyes’ reflections on Google Maps
By Lisa Vaas,

A predator has confessed to stalking and attacking a young Japanese pop star by zooming in on the reflections in her eyes from photos she posted on social media.
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A 26-year-old man by the name of Sato was arrested and confessed to police that he’d used the star’s selfies to figure out where she lived. Each of her pupils reflected the nearby streetscape, which he plugged into the street map function of Google Map to find out matching bus stops and scenery.

Holy cow! This is the kind of analysis I used to think only existed in science fiction.