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over a year ago
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Myself and others have posted before about the dangers of smart phones that take photos with automatic uploads and GPS co-ordinates - with a few recent posts about kik and other social media photo sharing sites popping up and the fact at Christmas there will probably be a lot of new smartphones about it's worth reminding people to read the manual of your phone and make sure you understand how it's file sharing works.
You don't want to take a photo and suddenly discover it has just been automatically uploaded to your facebook/instagram/whatever account for all to see 
The GPS I refer to will allow anyone with basic knowledge of how those things work to look up the exif data in the photo (or even post to an online finding service) and very quickly get a rough idea (within 300 feet) of where the photo was taken
So, either switch off that function or remove the data from your pictures with a data scrubber (just search google for exif data scrubber)  |
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"Myself and others have posted before about the dangers of smart phones that take photos with automatic uploads and GPS co-ordinates - with a few recent posts about kik and other social media photo sharing sites popping up and the fact at Christmas there will probably be a lot of new smartphones about it's worth reminding people to read the manual of your phone and make sure you understand how it's file sharing works.
You don't want to take a photo and suddenly discover it has just been automatically uploaded to your facebook/instagram/whatever account for all to see
The GPS I refer to will allow anyone with basic knowledge of how those things work to look up the exif data in the photo (or even post to an online finding service) and very quickly get a rough idea (within 300 feet) of where the photo was taken
So, either switch off that function or remove the data from your pictures with a data scrubber (just search google for exif data scrubber) "
Must say I dont know a lot about data,,,,but scrubbers now thats a different matter,,,,  |
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"Myself and others have posted before about the dangers of smart phones that take photos with automatic uploads and GPS co-ordinates - with a few recent posts about kik and other social media photo sharing sites popping up and the fact at Christmas there will probably be a lot of new smartphones about it's worth reminding people to read the manual of your phone and make sure you understand how it's file sharing works.
You don't want to take a photo and suddenly discover it has just been automatically uploaded to your facebook/instagram/whatever account for all to see
The GPS I refer to will allow anyone with basic knowledge of how those things work to look up the exif data in the photo (or even post to an online finding service) and very quickly get a rough idea (within 300 feet) of where the photo was taken
So, either switch off that function or remove the data from your pictures with a data scrubber (just search google for exif data scrubber)
Must say I dont know a lot about data,,,,but scrubbers now thats a different matter,,,, "
sounds about right  |
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"Myself and others have posted before about the dangers of smart phones that take photos with automatic uploads and GPS co-ordinates - with a few recent posts about kik and other social media photo sharing sites popping up and the fact at Christmas there will probably be a lot of new smartphones about it's worth reminding people to read the manual of your phone and make sure you understand how it's file sharing works.
You don't want to take a photo and suddenly discover it has just been automatically uploaded to your facebook/instagram/whatever account for all to see
The GPS I refer to will allow anyone with basic knowledge of how those things work to look up the exif data in the photo (or even post to an online finding service) and very quickly get a rough idea (within 300 feet) of where the photo was taken
So, either switch off that function or remove the data from your pictures with a data scrubber (just search google for exif data scrubber)
Must say I dont know a lot about data,,,,but scrubbers now thats a different matter,,,, "
why???? Cause you have to scrub so often?????... You should consult someone bout that...  |
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As far as I know the data scrubbers you use on your PC (at least the one I use) don't send any info out so it's not "collecting" anything. If you are concerned about data harvesting a decent firewall will let you know if any application you are using is trying to "phone home" but the real point of using them is to stop picture collectors you send photos to identifying the area you live in, and therefore maybe identifying you. If you are sending photos over the internet you can't be too careful |
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