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Offline DaveR

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Social Media Photo Sharing Warning
« on: April 20, 2014, 04:00:18 PM »
Hi ya swaggers,
This came in an email to me today, sorry if it is here already.
Something to be concerned about possibly. I had no idea this was possible to be honest.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/xvZF-yP_ceU?feature=player_detailpage
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Re: Social Media Photo Sharing Warning
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2014, 04:20:47 PM »
Yep, never post a pic or comment on any internet forum or social media that you wouldn't be happy to share with the world.
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Re: Social Media Photo Sharing Warning
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2014, 04:38:03 PM »
Great, now ya tell me...
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Re: Social Media Photo Sharing Warning
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2014, 04:59:21 PM »
Thanks DaveR,
Who would have thought!!!!
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Re: Social Media Photo Sharing Warning
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2014, 05:05:06 PM »
Another piece of advice is never give your real 'date of birth' to any internet site.
Many sites ask for it these days. I have a dummy DOB that I use for any of these.
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Re: Social Media Photo Sharing Warning
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2014, 05:07:44 PM »

Thanks DaveR,
Just went through the 5 family members iPhones, and turned off Geotracking.
I had no idea.
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Re: Social Media Photo Sharing Warning
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2014, 06:01:30 PM »
This is why we do not have exit data being accepted by tripigy. Images are not tagged with geo data upon upload. You can report your location so the data has some value, but you need to control it.

Most people don't realise phones and camera tag this geo data in exif format to images.

Yes as per previous comment, ensure when you post photos it is done securely and either shown to those you know or just ensure only public photos are sent up.
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Re: Social Media Photo Sharing Warning
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2014, 07:45:12 PM »
And yet we have no idea where MH370 is ???

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Re: Social Media Photo Sharing Warning
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2014, 08:24:13 PM »
This is less of an issue in reality as many sharing sites strip the data out on your behalf, have a read of the attached blog and scroll to the table at the bottom that gives you a list of sites and their policy on storing this meta data.

http://www.jini.co/blog/2013/10/facebook-twitter-stripping-out-your-metadata-context/

When uploading on to Myswag I use photobucket because you can go into settings and set it to remove all meta data on upload and scramble file names  which stops people from guessing sequences.
« Last Edit: April 20, 2014, 08:43:25 PM by Jasman »
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Re: Social Media Photo Sharing Warning
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2014, 07:20:35 AM »
Quote from: Moggy on April 20, 2014, 07:45:12 PM
And yet we have no idea where MH370 is ???

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did a lot of passengers upload photos of the plane from their phones that you're not sharing with the world?
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