these cutesy pictures in your phone to your puppy can reveal your position because the images leave footprints leading directly to your home. Trace data is called EXIF: Exchangeable image file format. It can contain the GPS coordinates of the location where you took photos.
Apple and Google smartphones ask owners if they agree to access location. Click "OK", and this means that every photo you take gets tagged with GPS coordinates. Thieves look for this information, which remains with images that are uploaded to Flickr, Photobucket, etc. (EXIF Facebook bands.) Crooks or deranged can then use Google Maps to get your exact location.
Prevent Geotagging: Six Steps
- for social media applications, disable location services
- for iPhone, go to Settings , privacy, location services, and turn off the location. services.
- for Android, go to Settings, Location Services and turn off location services.
- There are applications such as Pixelgarde geotags photos that erase existing online.
- For computers, Windows can strip the EXIF; right click on the image, click Properties, then in the "Details" tab, hit the delete properties and personal information.
- Mac users can use XnView but bulk cleaner also works for Windows.
- Run Hotspot Shield that hides your IP address creating a profile incomplete location data.
Many people do not even know the location information of pictures of the store. You are a walking map, unless you take some steps to protect your privacy. With these photos taken with a smartphone camera, you also save all sorts of goodies such as shutter speed, camera type, date the picture was taken, and of course ... GPS coordinates. Here are the details to protect your privacy :.
Windows Phones
- Select the photos in Windows Explorer
- Right click them hit. Properties
- On the Details tab, click "Remove Properties and Personal Information."
- A pop-up window; hit Ok.
- You will see a copy of every right-clicked pictures in the same folder. The copied images are safe to download.
Mac OS X
- Using an application called SmallImage. Download the
- Open the application. drag photos in the window.
- Clear the check box called "Recompress to quality."
- Click "Process", and copied photos will appear in the folder.
- To replace the original photos rather than duplicates, uncheck the "Add a suffix".
There are a number of other programs for control of your mobile phone location data, but the steps described above are among the easiest to follow.
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