I know where your cat lives

My sweet begonia, my little bouillabaisse, is no longer with us having departed to the great great Mouse, Fish and Bird chasing afterwards.

If he were still here I'd be quite concerned about his wellbeing since that site seems kind of stalking. (Further reading of the site mentions that it additionally has people tracking capability - not a pleasant notion)

If folks don't object to being tracked, that's fine by me, I'd rather maintain at least a few traces of privacy.

I completely agree that it's unsettling!

I think that might have been their intent...

I posted some photos here of my cats, but I'm pretty sure that when I did, I posted not from where they lived but my then or now present home areas when I posted. I assume that is true for many, so the whole thing is flawed.

This may be a plot of the Melmaquians, so they can find easy source of nourishment in the event of an invsion.

To translate what I tried to say, my cats aren't where they think they are.

we haf vay to trek your ket. You kent fuel uz.
Mwah ha ha

I looked up Melmaquian on google - which at first didn't want to provide me an answer - and I find it's some person's name. I suspect there is more to it. Perhaps Melmaquians are a group afraid of invasion by canines?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALF_(comics)#Marvel_Comics

My bad, the term traslated to english in Melmacian not Melmaquian

Nope.

And by the way i read the fundaments of the proyect and it is possible that one of your cats´photos could have ended up on the proyect.

They grab cat pictures that where uploaded to public servers on the internet. Every multimedia file has a tag added called metadata. This metadata hosts important infromation about the photo. Like type and the date, the device used for the file creatinon. Many modern electronic devices, principally cell phones, have always localization services.

If you are not carefull your cellphone may automatically be tagging the position of your cellphone using gps or wifi net on the metadata of your photos. With out you even noticing. Since it is GPS information it is very very accurate.

Ha! Well, I'm ignorant of Marvel Comics, though I've heard of them. A friend of mine named her dog Marvel.

I loved ALF tv series. I had just realized his franchise is owned by Marvel comics.

Cats are one thing but this "hidden" location information is contain in a great deal of uploaded photos including children and young women.

You do need to check your camera/phone to see if it set to places GPS locations on the photos.

That is completely true. I had scolded my nices a few times for uploading their gps position on facebook.

It is really easy to avoid such information to leak by simple disableing the localization services on your android device. And having always blocked the gps tracker.

Probably not mine - unless they've mined old a2k photos loaded from photobucket. I've got an almost antique cell phone - no texting, no camera, no musical ring tone. But even with this new technology, people do move and take their cats with them, or one hopes they do.

The one thing I think that the phone gps is good for is if you go hiking in the wilderness and get hurt somehow. I gather that at least sometimes they can track the phone.

No, neither of them are, nor are any of the other cats down my road.

funny, none of the feral cats in my neighbourhood seem to have facebook accounts or smart phones