Smartphone pictures pose privacy risks

Pictures you've e-mailed or uploaded from your smartphone could leak information that can threaten your safety or that of your children.

Visit http://tinyurl.com/smartphonerisks to read much more on this investigation.

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News & Politics

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• smartphone pictures
• location
• privacy risks

[johnnyzing]

More fear based news....USA, home of fear! Fear is powerful. Where does this agenda come from? Hide under the bed. Do nothing. Fear, fear, fear. Wait, there is a guy looking at you right now looking at this. Go hide!

[MrKesfer]

GPS data can be removed from photos with metadata removers like the free BatchPurifier LITE.

[letitshineforhim]

God and guns will protect are children pray for them every day and educate them i wish somebody would monitor the foul words spoken on this site doesnt help especially when kids read this crap themselves

[Claggy]

It's a threat to those who get a smart phone without knowing what all a smart phone can do, and then fail to learn how to use it. It's such a simple fix, but a ridiculous amount of people just have no clue that it is happening or how to change the settings. In fact, when you first get an iPhone, the apps ask you (on your first use) whether or not you want to enable it. All you have to do is click no...

[OnslBuddha]

You realize if you even have your phone on people can track you. You realize that no matter who you are people will find you. Idk maybe today people today are just ignorant

[JustEnoughXenon]

This is of course true, because the photo is now containing very specific location data. The problem is not the smart phone, but rather the online services which are allowing this meta data to be unsecure!

[Dwenger5]

@ggw42 Yeah, you are correct. I was a bit hasty in my zeal for survival and lack of paranoia. I should clarify: Children, the otherwise emotionally immature, and those who believe everything the mainstream media cites as their agendae (agendi?) should continue to offer up their personal safety to the Government or those of us who don't have the temerity to rely on 9-1-1 and willingly partake of Constitutional Carry. Comparing stats from the US and any Third World Country is apls 2 orangs

[djpo1974]

This falls into that "no shit" category. I am definitely NOT terrified by this. It is legitimately...... already handled by intelligent parents.....

[rugratz2222]

The sky is falling ... the sky is falling ... hopefully people won't freak and just figure out how to hide info on iphone pics. Since this was done in Nov, 2010 (1 1/2 years go folks from this post) ... how many incidents of predators have been documented using this technology to stalk victims? What's that? None? But the media sure likes that 8.5 million viewers chimed in ... and more as spam emails get forwarded to everyone - same reason I was brought here! And I'm not worried.

[deaconous1]

There's a free app called Pixelgarde that removes geotags from photos when you share them online. Just use it, problem solved.

[ggw42]

@Dwenger5 Umm, obviously not. Case in point: USA. Armed, less safe, less polite.

If you don't believe me: look up gun ownership. US is #1, 90 guns per 100 people (over 30% of the guns in the WORLD are in the USA). Are we safer? No. More polite? WTF! Look up international crime stats, and finally (for example) browse online chat rooms in less armed or unarmed countries to see if they are more polite. Not that this has anything to do with geo-tagging photos, but since the matter was raised...