Geo-tagging - Please Read
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 1:36 am
Every day more cameras and mobile phones come onto the market with "Geo-Tagging" facilities. Many people have phones and cameras with this evil technolodgy built in and are not aware that they publishing often incriminating data about themselves.
Geotagging is part of a set of data that the mobile device embeds in the picture file. The data includes technical information about the camera type, date etc. but it also includes the location where the picture was taken.
Anyone with the correct software such as the freely available Picassa / Google Earth can fly to the location of the house where the picture was taken, switch to street view and you can have alook at the number on the front door.
If you need a demonstration this picture has geotagging data enclosed
This link will take you a facility that will allow you to locate the picture on a map.
http://regex.info/exif.cgi
The link will also allow you to check any pictures you have doubt about.
Paranoia - Of course. and we all know that if PC Plod man wants to track us down he can, but this is making it too easy for him.
It is also making it too easy for the bad guys, giving them your address in the picture then a couple of weeks later dropping a line in a post -"I will be away for a couple of weeks"
Even worse is your daughter posting a harmless picture of herself in her bedroom and then posting it in a forum of her choice
telling every pervert in the country where she sleeps.
I would suggest that if you do not need Geotagging on your camera your phone you turn it off
If you need to remove geo-tagging data from a picture then this link should do it for you.
http://pixelgarde.com/
Geotagging is part of a set of data that the mobile device embeds in the picture file. The data includes technical information about the camera type, date etc. but it also includes the location where the picture was taken.
Anyone with the correct software such as the freely available Picassa / Google Earth can fly to the location of the house where the picture was taken, switch to street view and you can have alook at the number on the front door.
If you need a demonstration this picture has geotagging data enclosed
This link will take you a facility that will allow you to locate the picture on a map.
http://regex.info/exif.cgi
The link will also allow you to check any pictures you have doubt about.
Paranoia - Of course. and we all know that if PC Plod man wants to track us down he can, but this is making it too easy for him.
It is also making it too easy for the bad guys, giving them your address in the picture then a couple of weeks later dropping a line in a post -"I will be away for a couple of weeks"
Even worse is your daughter posting a harmless picture of herself in her bedroom and then posting it in a forum of her choice
telling every pervert in the country where she sleeps.
I would suggest that if you do not need Geotagging on your camera your phone you turn it off
If you need to remove geo-tagging data from a picture then this link should do it for you.
http://pixelgarde.com/