You probably already knew this, but if you email pictures taken with your cell phone, especially of children or valuables in your home, DON'T!
UNLESS: you do not have gps capability, or you are able to "turn off" the GPS info on your cell phone camera. Many pocket cameras also come with GPS now.
To determine whether your camera provides the gps location, simply "right click" on the photo that is loaded to your computer. The display will show your co-ordinates if it has GPS. Some of the first models to come out with GPS do not have a "disable" feature. If it shows your co-ordinates, be very aware that you may be giving your address to the whole world if you put one of these pictures on "facebook" or "youtube," for example. Or your email may be intercepted. Email is ridiculously hackable.
Now if you are lost, you can take a picture of the tree you are sitting under and "Iphone" it to whoever you want to rescue you including 911, and
they can tell exactly where you are. Just be sure you want whoever sees your picture to know. If you buy a camera or a cell phone (IPHONE) or any such device make sure it has ability to TURN OFF GPS, and remember to use it.
If you buy a new cell/iphone, make sure it has a "gps disable" in the menu. There is almost NEVER a reason to give your location to the whole
world if you use facebook or twitter or youtube.
What Your Digital Photos Reveal About You
The geotagging data contained in many mobile phone images lets strangers know exactly where you are.
The moment is special: Your kid just learned how to ride a bike without training wheels. So you fire up your iPhone's camera, snap a photograph, upload the image to TwitPic, and share the evidence of your child's triumph via Twitter.
When you post the picture, a subset of the 75 million Twitter users will know the exact location of you and your child. Digital photos automatically store a wealth of information--known as EXIF data--produced by the camera. Most of the data is harmless, but as Mayhemic Labs' Ben Jackson noted at the Next HOPE security conference in New York last July, about 3 percent of all photos posted on Twitter contain location data, and that figure is growing. Anyone on the Web who can read the data knows where the photographer was standing. And arguably this is a gross invasion of personal privacy.
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