Geographic Localization of an Anonymous Social Network Message Data Set
Alexander Böhm, Benjamin Taubmann, Hans P. Reiser · 2016
Nowadays, privacy and anonymity are becoming more and more important for users of social networks. Thus, it is of particular interest for user of an anonymous, location-based social network if the network is able to provided the anonymity that it appears to provide. In this work, we present an approach to obtain the geographic location of users of the popular Jodel social network. We are able to reconstruct the exact location from which a message was sent with an accuracy of 10 meters, using only 20 requests sent from virtual clients at different locations to the social network service.