For those of you using your smartphones, beware disclosing geotagging information that you don't mean to disclose. Here's a NYT article on how it can sometimes cause issues...
It looks like this site (365Project) does a good job of not showing any geotag information for people who are posting from their smartphones, but other sites leave more up to the poster in terms of information security.
I don't have a smartphone (yet), but this is why I don't upload photos off my phone to anywhere except Facebook (which strips exif/geotags, just like the article says). I'm also very cautious about posting photos of the front of my house, or photos that can give away where exactly my house is (address, address across the street, etc). People just have to use common sense... not sure why people don't realize stuff is GPS marked... twitter displays it below the box you make a tweet in, and a big DUH to sites like Foursquare, which whole purpose is to tell people where you are. Set stuff to friends only and control your contacts... the whole town doesn't have to be on your friends list! Let alone strangers...
It's kinda like people who upload party photos to Facebook and then complain when their employers see them and take action. Um, why are your bosses/employers/coworkers on your friend list, or why do you leave that stuff public? Or at the very least if you must have your bosses on your profile, make a separate user group that stops them from seeing your photos? Common sense people, common sense!!
In defense of geotagging with DSLR... I'd love to have it for when I'm traveling, as then I can look back and see exactly where a photo was taken. I think that's the main point, not to give thieves details of your house. But I wouldn't use it around my house, as I don't need gps coordinates to find my bedroom.
Personally, I've thought before that the whole "Geotagging means you'll get mugged and killed!!" argument is mainly scaremongering... I'm a Foursquare user, and have had people telling me before that "using Foursquare means I'll be burgled" - that's rubbish, in my opinion!
But, @hmgphotos, I agree about the Facebook thing - the number of people I know who don't know how to use Friend Lists on Facebook, or don't even know that that feature exists, is shocking!
@manek43509 I agree it's scaremongering. I use Foursquare as well, I just have it set to friends only and I don't participate in mayorships or allow it to post to Facebook unless I tell it to. Otherwise I think it's a fairly fun "game" or whatever they say it is. I just always forget to check in :(
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The newer DSLR cameras also have GPS/Geotag. I don`t like it.
It's kinda like people who upload party photos to Facebook and then complain when their employers see them and take action. Um, why are your bosses/employers/coworkers on your friend list, or why do you leave that stuff public? Or at the very least if you must have your bosses on your profile, make a separate user group that stops them from seeing your photos? Common sense people, common sense!!
In defense of geotagging with DSLR... I'd love to have it for when I'm traveling, as then I can look back and see exactly where a photo was taken. I think that's the main point, not to give thieves details of your house. But I wouldn't use it around my house, as I don't need gps coordinates to find my bedroom.
But, @hmgphotos, I agree about the Facebook thing - the number of people I know who don't know how to use Friend Lists on Facebook, or don't even know that that feature exists, is shocking!
It worked really well when it was still running... over share plus simple internet script means more than you thought you where sharing...