As if we didn't have enough to worry about -- Another Internet Alert - Please watch

[audioguy]

Another Internet Alert - Please watch

http://youtu.be/N2vARzvWxwY

 

[amirm]

I hope everyone watches it. If you are not, your phone is trying to be nice and tagging the GPS locations for your pictures. So therefore, any picture you post that way has such "metadata" which can easily be extracted and mapped to the exact location the picture was taken *by anyone*. Especially bad is if you post those pictures to places like facebook which by default may show those images to the whole world, not just your friends. Now imagine these are all your children photos and such!

The above is why I won't accept friend requests from people easily on my facebook and linkedin.

 

[beek]

I hope everyone watches it. If you are not, your phone is trying to be nice and tagging the GPS locations for your pictures. So therefore, any picture you post that way has such "metadata" which can easily be extracted and mapped to the exact location the picture was taken *by anyone*. Especially bad is if you post those pictures to places like facebook which by default may show those images to the whole world, not just your friends. Now imagine these are all your children photos and such!

The above is why I won't accept friend requests from people easily on my facebook and linkedin.

I always wondered about that with folks that live in unsecure homes & shoot their systems?

 

[amirm]

I always wondered about that with folks that live in unsecure homes & shoot their systems?

If they are using a gun to shoot their systems, then they are secure I would think. Otherwise, you definitely have a good point.

 

[RBFC]

I couldn't find any setting in my DroidX that would allow me to selectively shut off GPS to my camera. I only found global on/off controls. Anybody?

Lee

 

[beek]

Security

If they are using a gun to shoot their systems, then they are secure I would think. Otherwise, you definitely have a good point.

One of wildest I heard was a guy picked up a pair of big Soundlabs & left them in a closed trailer found the whole show was missing while he slept at a hotel for the long ride home.

 

[amirm]

I couldn't find any setting in my DroidX that would allow me to selectively shut off GPS to my camera. I only found global on/off controls. Anybody?

Lee

Start the camera app and then hit the menu button. Then select "tags" and in there the top option is "Auto Location Tag." Make sure it is clear.

 

[RBFC]

Start the camera app and then hit the menu button. Then select "tags" and in there the top option is "Auto Location Tag." Make sure it is clear.

That did it. I was looking at the general "location" services menu, with various gps choices, etc.

Thanks!

Lee

 

[beek]

security

But then their systems would buzz and resonate!
I hate when that happens

 

[Kal Rubinson]

I hope everyone watches it. If you are not, your phone is trying to be nice and tagging the GPS locations for your pictures. So therefore, any picture you post that way has such "metadata" which can easily be extracted and mapped to the exact location the picture was taken *by anyone*. Especially bad is if you post those pictures to places like facebook which by default may show those images to the whole world, not just your friends. Now imagine these are all your children photos and such!

Well, I get the idea but I don't watch youtube. As a relic of an earlier time, I prefer to read concise statements. Of course, to be consistent, I am not likely to participate in the behaviors that would make be vulnerable to such problems. Is this progress?

 

[amirm]

I am the same Kal. We have no family pictures online for the world to see. We email them when we want to share or private links. I am surprised what pictures people share with the world on facebook. They don't realize that facebook mixes their business and family friends together. We don't do that in real world but someone in virtual, we do without realizing it.

It is incredible how much privacy we have lost in the age of Internet. What used to require a detective and months of research, now takes a few seconds with the search engines if you know how to use them. The visibility of this is not known to the general public.

 

[RBFC]

EXIF data

Here's a basic primer, now that my interest has been peaked:

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/using-exif-data

Lee

 

[amirm]

That's right. That is the "metadata" I was talking about. Usually has the camera settings but can also include the GPS locations.

 

[Mark (Basspig) Weiss]

Simple solution: shoot photos with a real camera. I prefer the Nikon D7000, myself.

 

[JackD201]

I'm with you Mark. To this date I still don't have a Facebook account. I just see too many people spilling their guts in what I consider not just public but global space. Call me paranoid but so called "privacy settings" brng me no comfort. Like the video says, if I were a crook, social networking sites are a great resource. Reminds me of this story I saw on TV. A woman was burglarized because she happened to post that she was going to the grocery. The burglar was someone she had "friend-ed" who happened to see the opportunity. If here apartment complex hadn't had security cameras, the guy would never have been caught.

I'm not anti social networking sites, I just think people shouldn't be naive about them. That's why I appreciate this thread so much. People have to know about things like this.