Hackers Claim Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data

Part of me is hoping this leaks. Might be the only way to get people to care.

It would also be a fascinating dataset to explore.

I could easily lose weeks of my life analyzing a trove of data like this. I had a great time with the Twitch data a few years back.

I would like to hear more details about your adventure. Do you have a blog post or similar that you can share?

> Part of me is hoping this leaks. Might be the only way to get people to care

How's that worked out for us the last billion times?

I wrote one but never published it. I'm working on resurrecting the blog (writing an article right now) I appreciate the interest and I'll dig up the draft and publish it later this week.

Please do. I find Twitch to be a fascinating corner of the internet. From the shared lingo via third-party emotes to the depressing TTS messages of the chatters, it's all gold.

Maybe we should do a South Park with their TrollTrace plotline and make the data publicly available (maybe purposefully exclude the last 6-12 months of data for a little bit of secrecy), and watch the public rage while they can look up the movements of everyone they know!

Though I don’t think that would even work, as people’s anger would be directed at the public directory rather then the source of the data and how it was gathered…

(Edit: Don’t actually do this, as it could / probably will, do more harm than good. But until the majority of people get angry at such data collection, it will just continue to happen)