Photos taken from your mobile can reveal your address!

[thedudeman]

Yeesh. Thanks for the heads up. My iPhone has this. Thankfully I don't share photos from my iPhone online anywhere other than Facebook, but still.

 

[Justin M]

I believe the technical term is exif data.

It is. If anybody wants to try it out, http://regex.info/exif.cgi

 

[ItsZippy]

Ooh, I never knew that. I don't think my phone has GPS, and I rarely take photos anyway, so I think I'm safe.

 

[Gizmo]

I guess I'll have to be more careful when taking pictures. I don't want lots of screaming fans outside my house. lol

 

[Panik]

I have known about this for a fair while but was a good read and I am glad that you have taken this to the attention of the FP community.

I would also like to state that upon taking an image via a mobile phone if you upload it into a picture editor such as paint and re-save the image then there is no exif data left on the image.

 

[katy perry is hot]

Yeesh. Thanks for the heads up. My iPhone has this. Thankfully I don't share photos from my iPhone online anywhere other than Facebook, but still.

Yeah so does mine... the iphone doesn't have an ability to actually disable geotagging... you have to go to location services and turn it off the camera.

 

[Teg]

Wow, I'm usually pretty up to date on technology and I had no idea bout these geotags, I will be researching how to turn that function off on my android phone.

 

[Panik]

Yeesh. Thanks for the heads up. My iPhone has this. Thankfully I don't share photos from my iPhone online anywhere other than Facebook, but still.

Yeah so does mine... the iphone doesn't have an ability to actually disable geotagging... you have to go to location services and turn it off the camera.

I believe you are able to do so with a jailbroken iPhone; my brother stated this a year or so I go; if I recall correctly.

 

[Deleted member 25872]

Wow, I have disabled my GPS On my mobile now! 🙂

 

[MajesticSquid]

That's awful...... Just to think people can track you down even easier now...

 

[MasterA]

I knew about this when one of my friend posted a photo on a facebook chat and it revealed his location. I never have my GPS on unless I am using it. I wouldn't be taking photos when I have using my GPS so it would be fine. Putting GPS on uses a lot of battery anyways so you shouldn't really have it on unless you are using it.

 

[htb24]

I knew about this when one of my friend posted a photo on a facebook chat and it revealed his location. I never have my GPS on unless I am using it. I wouldn't be taking photos when I have using my GPS so it would be fine. Putting GPS on uses a lot of battery anyways so you shouldn't really have it on unless you are using it.

I have GPS by default so I think I should be fine, also I don't really take many photos and put them on facebook.