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15 years ago

All you people with smart phones.... check this out

To any of you who take pictures from your phones. Good information to know.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7621105

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socks
15 years ago
That's not good news. The lesson here then is use your camera for pictures you will post on the internet, not your phone.
vala55
15 years ago
Even with a camera photo if you post on the internet they can track you just not as easily.
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User
15 years ago
With my cell phone, if I post to Flickr, it can tell where I took the picture within FEET. I just quickly go to Flickr and change the map when I've taken the picture at home. But, I think you have to be on my contacts list to see it either way.
socks
15 years ago
Vala, how would anyone be able to track a camera?
User
15 years ago
How to disable your iPhone. I just did mine. I had to view page source on my twitpic account to see that indeed, people can find me with the co-ordinates that show on it.

Here is a link that might be useful: disable location on your iPhone here!
User
15 years ago
socks12345, most cell phones now have GPS. Because of that, pictures are geotagged. I checked both my Flickr account and my Twitpic account, and sure enough my pictures show where I took them. I thought by me moving my pictures on my map on Flickr it would fool people into believing I took my picture somewhere other than my home. I found the coordinates when I viewed the "page source" and entered them into a website. Sure enough, the geotag put the pictures right back on top of my house. I only left up the pictures I did not take in my home with my cellphone.
socks
15 years ago
Vala said they could track a camera too, not a phone, if I understand correctly.
joann23456
15 years ago
I have "locations" disabled for my iPhone camera (though not for other programs), and my location does not show up for pictures posted online. So I think you can get around this easily, but not if you do nothing.
vala55
15 years ago
It's not tracking a camera it's posting on the internet. You can be tracked to by your post according to someone in one of these forums.

A couple of years ago someone asked about it and a poster came back with just enough of his name, address, etc., to let him know it could be done. That is why I would never put a child's photo on the internet and why my nephew won't let their kids photos on any website. It is not safe.
User
15 years ago
This is a 'screen shot' of a picture I took with my iPhone at a restaurant with our son, last May. I went to "View" then scrolled down to "source" (top of IE page, between "edit" and "favorites". Then scrolled down the many many lines of coding that Flickr uses and found the coordinates my phone took with it's geotagging feature.

I checked with my Twitpic account and did the same thing. Sure enough, the same geotagging showed up. But it did not show up with the pictures taken with my digital camera's. Only with my cellphone camera.

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