i had to laugh when i read this. i warned some friends about these little dangers, but they brushed me off as paranoid. i pointed out single mom, stalker ex husband, geo tagging means he can find her new house. perverts and stalkers delight woohoo! now those same people that laughed at me are coming back and saying hey... how do i stop this? i usually laugh, point out a told ya so, then tell them to turn off geotagging on their phone and to read the manual. http://icanstalku.com/how.php also tells how to shut off things like that, and is a good site for awareness.
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I find it helpful for work and when traveling on vacation, but for this site I turn it off and practice safe posting practices. I make a rule not to shoot, my house, my block, my car, my friends homes from the outside, my yard. If you see all my photos in downtown Philadelphia, I think a stalker would assume, hey this chick lives in downtown Philadelphia.
This is the same response to the news posting I gave to my mother on Sunday, but find the other link less news sensational and more factual.
"If you have a facebook page, they will find you
If you have a land line, they will find you
if you have family or you work for the goverment, they will find you.
IPhones have enabled gps to be attached to your phone. So in taking the photos they are given a lat and long. If I upload them into Picasa I can make a map of where my photos were taken. If I go on vacation without having that GPS turned on, guess what, the photos from the pocket camera will pretty much give out your location away.
Bad News, if you are posting on facebook or another site, somehow bad stalkers and people may have the possible chance of tracking you down based on where and when you take your photos. But on the good side, I work for the City so they know where to find me with or without my photos."
Usually is is defaulted to off. I have a Droid, and both in phone camera app, and all the apps I've gotten for it (Vignette, some others) automatically have the GPS tagging turned off as default.
Don't want people finding out about you? Burn your driver's license, sell your house, move to the literally middle of nowhere and build a mud hut, stop working, stop driving, don't use utilities. And certainly do not get online. Otherwise, I find it funny when people who have stuff online get all paranoid, kind of a big "DUH" in my head.
My camera does not have GPS, but I have found a program that can GPS photos for you. Being that I have the option to put the GPS on the photos, I usually choose not to tag the photos around home, but will tag the ones while I am on the road. Just from my photos, I think my route to and from work are rather well defined.
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I find it helpful for work and when traveling on vacation, but for this site I turn it off and practice safe posting practices. I make a rule not to shoot, my house, my block, my car, my friends homes from the outside, my yard. If you see all my photos in downtown Philadelphia, I think a stalker would assume, hey this chick lives in downtown Philadelphia.
This is the same response to the news posting I gave to my mother on Sunday, but find the other link less news sensational and more factual.
"If you have a facebook page, they will find you
If you have a land line, they will find you
if you have family or you work for the goverment, they will find you.
IPhones have enabled gps to be attached to your phone. So in taking the photos they are given a lat and long. If I upload them into Picasa I can make a map of where my photos were taken. If I go on vacation without having that GPS turned on, guess what, the photos from the pocket camera will pretty much give out your location away.
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You can turn it off, see website for directions
http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/09/disable-iphone-gps-geographic-tagging-data-in-iphone-photos/
Bad News, if you are posting on facebook or another site, somehow bad stalkers and people may have the possible chance of tracking you down based on where and when you take your photos. But on the good side, I work for the City so they know where to find me with or without my photos."
Don't want people finding out about you? Burn your driver's license, sell your house, move to the literally middle of nowhere and build a mud hut, stop working, stop driving, don't use utilities. And certainly do not get online. Otherwise, I find it funny when people who have stuff online get all paranoid, kind of a big "DUH" in my head.