You are Here (and we know it!)
What if you get to know that someone in Kimberly, Australia, knows where you went biking last Sunday? If this doesn’t creep you enough, what if the person also knows that you ran across the pavement in front of your house yesterday? If you don’t come under the Unconcerned category of Westin’s privacy segmentation , you must have guessed that we are hinting at the scary truth of the current day’s location privacy. With ubiquitous apps like Google(search), Facebook, Uber keeping records of your movements almost every second(with or without your permission), its hard to imagine how much location-based information do services like Google Maps, Foursquare, Strava posses. What our project is about? If these apps are collecting location-based data, then what do we, as students, got to do about it? Well, in this project, we didn’t do any rocket science , we only took publicly available routes uploaded by a user and predicted a tiny detail of the