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Competition: spot the celeb

It is known that many of us (including myself) are using social media. A lot about security and privacy is already been written about this kind of media. Many people are posting on Twitter their moments often illustrated by pictures taken from their mobile phones. There is some nice interesting (forensic) thing about some pictures taken with an I-phone. It includes GPS-data. Let me show you an example:

Last year I was for my job in Senegal and over there I took following picture:
Senegal_market (I know it’s a blurry image, but the smell of rotten <->>>-< was far more worse)

Images taken by digital media contain 'EXIF'data; in short information about the picture like time, date, brand camera etc. For forensic examining pictures I mostly use the tool 'Exifviewer'. In this case I used it for the picture above:
exif_output

The output of the tool showed us some GPS data. When using this data in Google Maps it exactly showed the place where the picture was taken.
Noticing this following (evil) thought came up:

Many celebs are posting on Twitter and Facebook. I would like to organise a competition about spotting the celebs. So crawl and search for twits and pictures and examine them for the GPS data.

RULE 1: I respect the privacy of any celeb/person, NO!!!! GPS data will be posted and I ask you to do as well;
RULE 2: Send the name of the celeb including the picture of Google Maps to: christiaan@securitybananas.com;
RULE 3: Top 50 of Celebs will be posted on this Forum without GPS Data; fun pictures maybe ;)

This competition is for fun and learning and another try to make people aware of their digital traces

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