Japan: Stalker found Japanese singer through 'reflection in her eyes'

According to recent police reports, a Japanese man was accused of stalking and sexually assaulting a young pop star.  accused later informed police how he figured out exact train station, where she was present at time she ed im. He claimed to have found her location through reflection of her surroundings in her eyes in a selfie she posted online.

Incident raises serious debates over cyberstalking

police stated that 26-year-old man waited at station until he saw pop star and followed her to her house. case has raised serious discussions over threat of cyberstalking. Hibiki Sato, suspect has been accused of following woman from train station to her house on night of September 1, and later molesting her.

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Soon after accused was arrested, he revealed his obsession for pop singer, who was also described as a 21-year-old "Japanese idol" by local media channels. Police reports revealed how suspect zoomed im of her eyes, and located her using Google Street View.

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Studied even minutest details: Police

police also reported fact that man was very well aware of floor she lived on by studying details of videos she posted online, carefully looking at her flat details such as placement of curtains and direction of natural light coming through window.

case raises questions about risks unwittingly taken by social media users who post high definition pictures online documenting ir lives. Eliot Higgins, founder of investigations site Bellingcat said that higher quality ims allow for more details of surroundings to be identified that can help with geolocation, and more reference imry re is from services like Google Street View, higher chance re is of finding a location. 

He also ded that even tiniest details in a picture can help one locate where it was taken and can reveal a lot of information about individual in it. 

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