Posting pictures online reveals more than you know

[the white rabbit]

Posting pictures online reveals more than you know http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/newsfeatures/article/842467--posting-pictures-online-reveals-more-than-you-know

[Book]

GPS-equipped smart phones, iPhones and digital cameras embed location information in photos as a service to users to help them locate, sort and identify pictures. But most people either don’t know about the embedding or don’t understand how it can be abused, according to report co-author Robin Sommer.

Even tech-savvy users find it difficult to accurately assess the risk they face. As an example, the authors point to Apple’s iPhone 3G, which embeds high-precision geo-coordinates with all photos and videos taken with the internal camera unless explicitly switched off.

In fact, it is mostly devices at the higher end of the price scale that are geo-tagging, according to the report. Some sites, including Facebook, strip the information from the photos in the process of uploading them onto the site. Others, like TwitPic and Craigslist, do not.
YouTube uses the geographic information by default. Flickr requires users to opt in if they want to share their location with others.

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[Ares]

There's an option in the droid to allow you to turn that feature off.

[Ponce]

I believe that even if you turn it off it will still have power because it needs it in order to keep the info already in the machine........to me the only safe way would be to take the battery out.

[Joe King]

I believe that even if you turn it off it will still have power because it needs it in order to keep the info already in the machine........to me the only safe way would be to take the battery out.


Hi!
Excuse me, but wouldn't taking the batteries out defeat the whole purpose of having a digital camera in the first place? ???
AFAIK, it records the GPS data when you take the picture. Can't take a picture or use a cell phone if there's never any batteries in it, right?

IMHO, the only way to be sure is to have a camera without the GPS "feature"......if it can be called that.

[chad]

i guess people could always read the owners manual and turn the feature off. :oo-->

[Ares]

i guess people could always read the owners manual and turn the feature off. :oo-->


Droid Incredible makes that part easy. Even explains it during the activation process and what it does. Allows you to disable it, or to turn it back on later under GPS section of the phone.

I've requested it to ASK me whenever a program wants to use the GPS functionality. Only time I've used it is for navigation, or using Google Sky.

[Ponce]

Well, I don't own a cell phone and much less one that takes pictures has a GPS.....and good looking little blond jumps out when ever you asked her to.

[Grand Master Melon]

If you are worried about personal data in your photos, all you have to do is open the file in photoshop or mspaint and re-save it as a different file. That should remove all the exif data.

If you don't have photoshop and want to see what personal data is in your photos, try this website.

http://regex.info/exif.cgi





Cool link.

[k-os]

If you are worried about personal data in your photos, all you have to do is open the file in photoshop or mspaint and re-save it as a different file. That should remove all the exif data.

If you don't have photoshop and want to see what personal data is in your photos, try this website.

http://regex.info/exif.cgi


Thank you for that link. The amount of exif data displayed for a photo directly from my camera/cell phone is astounding. Luckily, my cell and camera aren't fancy enough to have GPS info on it. ;D