Digital photos can reveal your location.

Skim through the photos on Flickr or Photobucket, and you'll find pictures of cats pawing at living-room sofas, children playing in backyards and mothers gardening at home.
Dig a little deeper, and you can unearth the exact locations of many of those homes, embedded in data within the pictures.

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By supeesh• 17 Oct 2010 13:56

thanks for the information......

By shyams• 17 Oct 2010 13:31

Rating: 5/5

iPhone has this geotag feature by default. so if you shoot any pics with iPhone, your photos are bound to have the location info. if you want to strip it, you can. edit the exim data from RAW pic.

By anonymous• 17 Oct 2010 12:55

Rating: 5/5

Its not a problem with a camera ...as only high end one have these features and the people using such cameras know how to use it.

Its only a problem with the latest Phones....in the hands of laypeople who do not know if they have enabled their photo software to enable GPS or not.

GPS locations details for photos are useful only for surveys ... otherwise it has hardly any use.

By Deal_4_wHeel• 16 Oct 2010 18:25

sorry for what, posting a naked pic...!!

By t_coffee_or_me• 16 Oct 2010 18:05

One word REALITY

Better to be safe then sorry.

By lost marbles• 16 Oct 2010 18:01

Big brother!

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