A photo of a soft drink inside your house can give your exact location. With this technology, you really need to watch this short clip. Great technology for thieves and other bad people. Scary if you have kids, especially.
Apparently it applies only to cell phone and GPS enabled digital camera pictures.
I'm somewhat tech savvy, knew the technology existed but never thought about someone stalking me or my possessions that way.
If you watched the video, you know the tech is called GeoTagging, embedding geographical data (lat, long) int your digital image. Anywhere that image goes, the GeoTagging information goes.
I use an iPhone so I already knew I could disable location services to suspend GeoTagging data for that photo I take. Here's a link for iPhone directions and other smartphone varieties.
Everything I have been reading this feature is on the new phones, if you have an older phone this does'nt work on them. I may be wrong i'm not a guru on this stuff. If someone knows different please correct me. Rick
Rick--You are somewhat right although you need to define older. For instance IPhone has been out now for about 4 years now. So those even 4 year old phones are capable. Just say'n...............
Bob, I pasted the URL from the website into the post then hit submit. I also edited the post after it was submitted and pasted it in then hit submit. Didn't work either way. What am I not doing correctly?
Pictures aren't the only items that contain hidden metadata. All kinds of files have that. Get a metadata scrubber and use it...that's the safest thing.
Just remember the data is not complete until you finish the metadata.
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