cybercasing

cybercasing
pp.
Using online location-based data and services to determine when a home is unoccupied with a view to robbing it.
—cybercase v.
Example Citations:
Data stored in digital photographs can help criminals locate individuals and plot real-world crimes, a practice two researchers called "cybercasing" in a recently published paper. The site Pleaserobme.com: http://pleaserobme.com was one of the first to expose the problem by displaying tweets tagged with location information, although it has since stopped the practice.
—Niraj Chokshi, " How Tech-Savvy Thieves Could 'Cybercase' Your House: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/07/how-tech-savvy-thieves-could/60262/," The Atlantic, July 22, 2010
But may we offer, perhaps, a simple fix to address some of these concerns: don't post your vacation photos until after you return home and don't Twitter about it while there. Simple steps like these could go a long way into protecting your home and valuables from being "cybercased" by any tech-savvy thieves.
—Sarah Perez, " Researchers Warn of Geotagging Dangers - Are You Concerned?: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/researchers_warn_of_geotagging_dangers_are_you_concerned.php," ReadWriteWeb, July 22, 2010
Earliest Citation:
This article aims to raise awareness of a rapidly emerging privacy threat that we term cybercasing: using geo-tagged information available online to mount real-world attacks.
—Gerald Friedland and Robin Sommer, " Cybercasing the Joint: On the Privacy Implications of Geo-Tagging: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/cybercasinghotsec10.pdf" (PDF), International Computer Science Institute, May 2, 2010
Notes:
The verb to case, "to study the layout of a location before robbing it," has been in the language for about a hundred years, with the earliest written citation occurring in 1915.
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