Meet The Software That Helped Catch The Boston Bombers
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The article reviews how crowdsourcing and CrowdOptic's metadata-driven "focus awareness" technology were used following the Boston Marathon bombing to analyze large numbers of photos and identify points of interest, while noting crowdsourced efforts also produced misinformation and misidentified innocent people. It discusses the capabilities of extracting EXIF compass data, triangulation to determine crowd focus, and the potential law-enforcement and privacy implications of such crowd-mining tools.
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