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Macgeeza

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Hi,
I am worried about uploading pictures from my iPhone because people can see where the picture was taken and possibly find out where I live.

How can I stop my iPhone recording the picture info?
Also how can I check pictures that I have already uploaded to Twitpic don't have my location in the pic info.

Please help, Worried!
 
Apple 26.2 said:
Settings > Location Services > Camera

Can't recall how to undo location on pictures that have already been taken.
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Cool, so now location services for camera are off.

How do I view the exif data of my photo's already on the web site?
 
kdarling said:
Parents might care where their kid took pictures.

Estranged couples might not want the other one to know, either.

Plenty of reasons for a user to want to hide location info.
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Yeah, I didn't even realise that the pictures were recording this sort of info. I wonder if other people don't know this?
 
Welcome to the Future

Macgeeza said:
Hi,
I am worried about uploading pictures from my iPhone because people can see where the picture was taken and possibly find out where I live.

How can I stop my iPhone recording the picture info?
Also how can I check pictures that I have already uploaded to Twitpic don't have my location in the pic info.

Please help, Worried!
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My advice is to stop watching the local evening news. There are always one or two "Rainwater will kill your children! Find out on ActionNews 6!" stories.

I realize this doesn't assuage your current fear, but if you give into this fear you will spend the rest of your life jumping at shadows.

kdarling said:
Parents might care where their kid took pictures.

Estranged couples might not want the other one to know, either.

Plenty of reasons for a user to want to hide location info.
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True, there are reasons to hide your picture's location info. The idea that someone random person is online looking through pictures, trying to find a kid to snatch, then using that picture's location information to find and abduct the kid is not reasonable. If it's your ex, he (or she) has other ways to find you.

And in any case, issue will be moot in five years or so. At that time there will be so much personal and location information about you on the net that you'll be able to google "Joe Smith" or "Jane Smith's children", and the "maps" section of google will pinpoint where they are in real time, and have a history of everywhere they've ever been.
 
Get yourself a tinfoil hat and you will be fine.

tinfoilhat.jpg
 
Thanks for your comments about this but getting back to my question.
How do I view the exif data of my pictures on twitpic? (or any website if it's the same way). Just want to see what the info says on my pictures.

Thanks for any help
 
Macgeeza said:
Yeah, I didn't even realise that the pictures were recording this sort of info. I wonder if other people don't know this?
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Thanks slot. I did not realize this either. Even my iPod was doing it, so I shut it off.

What a wonderful place this is!!
 
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I hestitate to mention it, but location tagging must be very helpful to police as well, if they're smart enough to extract it.

For instance, you get a call from a criminal holding something of yours for ransom and you say, "Okay I'll pay you if you email me a photo showing it's okay."

Voila! You have their GPS coordinates. SWAT arrives in minutes.

If I were a crook, no way would I use my phone for anything. Too many call records, text records, email archives, and locating by either the phone company, or your phone itself.
 
Macgeeza said:
Cool, so now location services for camera are off.

How do I view the exif data of my photo's already on the web site?
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If they're on MobileMe people can see the latitude and longitude numbers. If they're on Flickr you can usually see an actual map.

For most other websites there's no way to see it on the site...they'd have to download it and use a computer program. On a Mac the fastest way is to open it in 'Preview' and hit Command-i.
 
I wouldn't worry About this too much, because most sites don't track stuff like that. Unless it's something like flickr. But anyway you can turn it off in your settings under location services.
 
OP, you're probably on twitter and Facebook, correct? With the security issues those two sites have I think you have more to worry about than if jimbo is planning on camping out in your front yard.
 
Don't websites like Facebook strip the EXIF data out for privacy reasons?
 
You can check any pic on your drive, or any that you've already uploaded by right-clicking the pic and copying the URL and pasting it in here:

http://regex.info/exif.cgi

It'll show the Google map of where it was taken and all other exif info.
 
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