WARNING!!!! If you take photos with your cell phone

[Ban Hammer 13,340]

Because of over 2,000 comments in the last 24 hours, which I can’t get to fast enough, comments has been turned off. I have “NO” technical answers for anyone. This was not my writing but info I passed along.

NOTE – I have no knowledge of how to do any of the suggestions below. If you have questions it would be best to check with your service provider or refer to your owner’s manual.

“Warning” If you, your kids or grand kids take pics from your phone—WATCH THIS!

This is truly alarming – please take the time to watch. At the end they’ll tell you how to set your phone so you don’t run this risk!

PLEASE PASS THIS INFO TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO TAKES PICTURES WITH THEIR CELL OR SMART PHONE AND POSTS THEM ONLINE.

I want everyone of you to watch this and then be sure to share with all your family and friends.

It’s REALLY important info, about what your posting things on your cell phones can do TO YOU!!!

Too much technology out there these days so beware………..

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH THIS VIDEO, AND TAKE THE RECOMMENDED PRECAUTIONS.

If you have children or grandchildren you NEED to watch this. I had no idea this could happen from taking pictures on the blackberry or cell phone. It’s scary.

http://kyeos.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/warning-if-you-take-photos-with-your-cell-phone/

[decocker 7,198]

this is new information to people?

[GandD 5,966]

Turn off location services in camera peeps.

[Darnell 8,478]

I likes it when grandma and grandpa learn about features of their phones.

[decocker 7,198]

I likes it when grandma and grandpa learn about features of their phones.

jitterbugs are not smartphones. as it should be..

[Protocol417 161]

http://tongonto.com/kidnappers-wont-find-your-babys-bedroom-from-a-facebook-photo/

There’s a new (old) video making the rounds on Facebook this morning. It’s a very old (for the Internet) video of a local news story that drums up fear about posting photos from your camera online.

First of all, this video from NBC ActionNews in Kansas City, Missouri is almost 3 years old. Technology has changed drastically on the sites mentioned in the video.

This video is so old, that the website they mentioned, icanstalku.com, has been mothballed. Their most recent post—saying goodbye and warning about Twitpic for Twitter image sharing—was dated January 2012. I don’t know if Facebook everretained EXIF data about your GPS location in the past, but it definitely does not now. And a mom named Kristina Mirell has shown that Twitpic strips EXIF data on photo uploads too.

Want reassurance that your photos on Facebook won’t tell kidnappers where little Suzy’s bedroom is? Here are two images of my one of my camera photos to compare.

This image one shows a photo I took on my camera and opened in Photoshop to view the GPS data. This is the same sort of process the reporter in the video was showing, but never mentioning the software. The photo location is all there in the File Info panel: latitude, longitude, etc… This photo was taken in a park, and our near-precise location within that park is evident. There’s a time stamp too.

This image is the same photo, uploaded directly to Facebook from my camera a few days ago, then downloaded from Facebook this morning. I open the EXIF data in Photoshop and there is nothing. No location, no time or date. Facebook completely reprocessed the photo, including resizing its width and height, and stripping associated data.

I hope that this will help you rest easy, and not worry too much about turning off GPS location in your phone. If you’re like me, you need it for Check Ins on Facebook, or finding your way out of nasty traffic, or signalling for rescue when you have a Grizzly on top of you in the woods.

Click on the link to see the photos mentioned.

*shrugs* People are getting all worried about a stranger finding out where your kid lives by hacking into (or just viewing) the image's metadata, when all they would have to do is Google your name and hometown to find your address. Never mind there is literally a one-in-a-million chance of any given child in the US being abducted by a stranger, and they don't need to "stalk" anybody on Facebook to find victims.

[Ban Hammer 13,340]

all they would have to do is Google your name and hometown to find your address.

to do that, they need your full name. some of us don't use our real name on fb

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Elected Democrat officials had no idea! What could go wrong sending photos of your ####### to strangers on the internet?

[Protocol417 161]

to do that, they need your full name. some of us don't use our real name on fb

Some, sure... but the people I've seen so far breathlessly freaking out about it have their full names, hometowns, and partner's name listed on Facebook for everyone to see. (Mostly in comments sections I've seen this... since Facebook is tied to absolutely everything nowadays. The people on my personal list get hidden the second they start posting more than a couple photos of their kids. Can't stand that.)

Elected Democrat officials had no idea! What could go wrong sending photos of your ####### to strangers on the internet?

But then the world would've never had the comedy gem that is "Carlos Danger"!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Some, sure... but the people I've seen so far breathlessly freaking out about it have their full names, hometowns, and partner's name listed on Facebook for everyone to see. (Mostly in comments sections I've seen this... since Facebook is tied to absolutely everything nowadays. The people on my personal list get hidden the second they start posting more than a couple photos of their kids. Can't stand that.)

But then the world would've never had the comedy gem that is "Carlos Danger"!

It's True.

More distrubing. 62% of New Yorkers disapprove of what he did. that means 38% DON'T !!!!!!!!!! It's a 4-way race (do NOT say "4-way" to the Mayor of San Diego) so he could WIN with 38% !!!!!!!!!! I mean sexting is fine...it helps keep K-1 relationships intact...that and skype sex, but I don't think it is sport for the Mayor of New York.

He may lose to a Republican and we would have another....Bloomberg?