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This data is super dangerous to reveal. Unless you provide fake data to fool strangers deliberately.



Which parts are dangerous to the average chum with no enemies?


Live location


I don't think knowing what city he's in is particularly dangerous.


He got a new house (likely with new furniture and appliances). Best time to rob the house is when he is in a different city.


Haha that's true. I do only store the geolocation up to 2 decimal places so it's rounded a little, but people do find out when I leave town. Luckily I have camera/alarm systems/etc. but maybe my insurance will tell me I brought this on myself. I even had https://x.com/anandstalker live-tweeting it before Twitter made their API too expensive.


The overwhelming majority of burglars are not doing online reconnaissance to establish where one person might be, when you can just drive by and see if there are cars parked there, or just kick in the door and see if anyone yells.


maybe I do... we'd never know!




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