She posts the picture to the family Tumblog (click here for an explanation of a "Tumblog"), and suddenly her picture is reposted with a link to a GoogleMap showing the bus stop where she dropped off the kids. Imagine mom taking a picture of the kids at the bus stop on the first day of school. While it is "creepy" to know that someone had pinpointed my apartment, simply based on an iPhone photo that I took of my puppy in the living room, I was more disturbed by the implication for families. I'm so glad I came to Marian to help me figure out this problem, more for the safety of the online community than myself. CommentsĪdrianDF replied on Thu, - 11:20 Re: IPhoto Users Beware: Some Photo Sites Make Finding You from Rather, when you are putting private information out on the internet, you lose much of the control of that information and it's better to understand that risk than to proceed blindly. Keeping things in perspective, I don't mean to imply that by posting photos to a sharing site that strangers will pop up on your doorstep. If you use other photo applications and sites, you'll want to find the instructions for each one to be sure you're managing your data correctly. Here's an article with information about turning off the feature of geotagging and sharing your location in your photo. But if you have a secret swimming hole, be careful about posting snaps of it online, since you may be giving the exact location away to thousands of strangers who will ruin the secret for you.
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You've found a gorgeous scenic picnic spot in the mountains? With geotagging in your digital photos, you'll never forget how to return to that spot in the future.
Geotagging is a great techy feature, helpful for mapping vacation photos to a trip and keeping things in order. Nor could they have realized that by clicking the link called "Where is My iPhone?" a map pops up to show where the child's image was taken. When they posted their child's photo on the internet, they didn't realize a screen-scraping program would repost the photo to another site. Or at least get awfully close to where you were at that time.Ĭonsider the parents of this infant. And using this data, a third party could map your location (when the photo was taken) and find you. What this means is when you take a digital photo using the Apple software, it records your physical location on the planet as part of the data in the file. He recently found that some of his Tumblr photos were appearing on another Tumblr website with links to the geotagging information in the image. If you are, like my friend Adrian, an iPhone user, you enjoy taking and uploading photos with this device.
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