This is a small part of a very deep OSINT rabbit hole. The service also allows tracking of insides of buildings, even without visibility of the outdoors.

This service also had a freely available test a while back where you could export to PDF. I used it briefly but I hadn't ever been their customer. Huge ethical concerns.

You can actually do the above yourself in some cases but the service (which is LE only) is likely to be way more accurate. If I upload a photo showing too much of my home and throw it into Google Lens it shows old photos of the inside when it was for sale many years ago. This is why I rarely take pictures. It means very little for me in the grand scheme as I consider myself a public individual and I posted photos in this very Nostr feed but if you are heavy on your opsec you should not do this.

I also managed to help a colleague with this a very long time ago by identifying the house of a photo subject who took a mirror selfie in his bathroom. I put Google Lens of the background of the image and it identified a Zillow listing of the house with every room inside. This is a very low effort thing to try out.

There's also equivalent services for tracking faces with AI. Some having very dodgy opt-out schemes and I had seen being marketed as law enforcement tools but ended up having malicious intentions. One of the largest ones had Reddit accounts where they posted on 18+ content subreddits for the purpose of using it to ID online sex workers.

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Crazy.

I think it's hypocritical for a public figure to talk about 'opsec' so I never bring it up, but people sure want to take opsec advice from criminals who browse and register accounts on clearnet forums after they've been taken down by law enforcement several times, chat through Telegram and Discord, have a Twitter account and coordinate their activities on an iPhone they likely text their mom and pops with...

While you could do the above in a way that makes you non-attributable, the margin for error just seems so high... I don't think I'd take it.

It makes me wonder if the only major prevention against such people being caught is just that their adversaries (the cops) aren't interested in them. Moment a big company gets hit, you see a disruptive response follows. This would make sense since attribution or discovering responsibility of an attack doesn't prevent an attack, building defences does.

It's so obvious to me that people could trace your location with images. Like I've been expecting that for decades.