Insurrectionists that stormed Capitol Hill and uploaded videos to the right-wing social media app Parler gave away their GPS coordinates to the app.
That data has now been scraped and archived by researchers, who could use the data to help identify criminals.
Many rioters including the Proud Boys - a Southern Poverty Law Center designated hate group – shared videos on the app, but hacker “@donk_enby” on Twitter has shown that the metadata (information about the content uploaded, such as number of megapixels in the videos or rotation) includes GPS positioning.
As such, it is likely that a number of people will have incriminated themselves as being part of the event, with information tying their Parler account to the scenes.
The hacker was previously working with academic researchers, helping them ingest Parler data, they told The Independent.
