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Re:TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account by exabrial on Thursday May 04, 2023 @10:14PM (#35824543)
Cat later found with 30 cans of tuna.
Re:TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account by hulitu on Friday May 05, 2023 @02:57AM (#35826107)
> TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account

So in UK cats have online acvounts ?

How about fishes ?

Re:TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account by zamnos on Friday May 05, 2023 @03:33AM (#35826338)
In the US, too. Dedicated pet lovers will make Instagram accounts for their pets, for lots of reasons. In this case it clearly backfired, but it can be useful for the account owner.
Re:TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Friday May 05, 2023 @04:53AM (#35826830)
Apparently. But if the cat was running the account how does that let its owner be tracked?
Re:TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account by qbrass on Friday May 05, 2023 @06:28AM (#35827404)
That's why cats need their own phones.
Re:TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account by mcstafford on Friday May 05, 2023 @03:43AM (#35826395)
You can't trust anyone with more lives than authentication factors.
Re:TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account by suddenclarity on Friday May 05, 2023 @04:00AM (#35826518)
Seems a bit wreckless by the journalist. I listened to another journalist yesterday and she ditched all her electronic devices when meeting a source to avoid being tracked. Meanwhile this journalist walks around with the app and tracking of the company she is investigating. Surely no one can claim they didn't know, especially a tech journalist.
Re:TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account by ikekkdcjkfke on Friday May 05, 2023 @08:19AM (#35828287)
Lol get face scanned by passing EV's and cloud cctv
Re:TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account by euroderf on Friday May 05, 2023 @05:39AM (#35827048)
There should be a market for trustworthy 12yo's (say, the kid of a journalistic colleague?) to take your devices around town to "interesting" places while you meet a source.
Re:TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account by tonyedgecombe on Friday May 05, 2023 @10:36AM (#35829783)
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Re:TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account by markx2 on Friday May 05, 2023 @07:13AM (#35827746)
"looked at the location of Cristina's IP address - the unique number of a device"

Someone should have spotted and corrected that.