If you take a picture and upload it to Twitter and you haven’t disabled the geotagging function on your smart phone, someone can look at the data attached to photos you take and share online and isolate the location of the picture within 15 feet. This is unsettling.
This CNET video walks you through how to change these settings on various types of smart phones.
Beyond telling strangers where you are, you are also telling them where you are not.
Say you have just snapped that picture of your feet from the hammock with the beach in the background. In addition to saying Dear Friends, I’m on vacation and you should be jealous…you’re also saying Dear Thief, I’m not home, you can rob my house!
Makes you think, huh?
Woah that is scary! I was glad to find that mine was already turned off. Thanks for sharing!
I hunted down a bunch of photos and deleted them. Oy.