Does everyone know this or am technologically stupid?

[underwaterrhymes]

Okay, so did you know that when you take photos with your iphone that it records the address of where you took it?

And that if you post that picture online a lot of places, pretty much anyone can download software to see the address of where you took it? (Facebook, at least, removes these details from the photos you post.)

I just learned this the other day and have since turned off the feature that records the address, but I freaked myself out by clicking on some of my photos and watching Google Maps zoom right the fuck in on where I was when I took it.

[Jalapeñomel]

My IPhone is old and does not record any addresses...so I guess I am glad to be behind technologically.

[pollyprissypants]

I was not aware of this. How do you turn that feature off?

[Deleted]

They did a news story about this a few years ago. They were able to GPS in on a photo, to the exact bedroom, the bed a child was sitting on when it was taken. This info is stored in the file and can be pulled very easily.

[pantsoffdanceoff]

This is completely brand new information to me. I am flummoxed, and kind of creeped out by how much my phone knows about me.

[underwaterrhymes]

Jun 4, 2013 21:10:06 GMT -5 pollyprissypants said:

I was not aware of this. How do you turn that feature off?

www.fieldtechnologies.com/stop-gps-data-recorded-in-photos-from-revealing-where-you-live/

This tells you how.

[mommylikestattoos]

I knew that photos store metadata, which can include location info. I've had that feature turned off for awhile, but don't know if that is common knowledge. I'm also a photo/technology nerd haha.

[speckledfrog]

Jun 4, 2013 21:12:12 GMT -5 rehabaddict said:

They did a news story about this a few years ago. They were able to GPS in on a photo, to the exact bedroom, the bed a child was sitting on when it was taken. This info is stored in the file and can be pulled very easily.

  Ths was pretty much my face reading that

[lilybug]

Yes, there was a big to-do on my FB feed about this a while back... I think it was at least a year ago. People were posting warnings about it and instructions for turning that feature off. Seems like the same fwds are making the rounds again this week.

[meemz]

I really like technology but I feel like its going too far and it is coming at a cost. Sometimes it is nice to have some anomymity.

[underwaterrhymes]

Jun 4, 2013 21:40:59 GMT -5 lilybug said:

Yes, there was a big to-do on my FB feed about this a while back... I think it was at least a year ago. People were posting warnings about it and instructions for turning that feature off. Seems like the same fwds are making the rounds again this week.

Yes, I got it via email from my grandfather so I hit up snopes all prepared to show him it was false. Then I saw it was real and started frantically stalking myself.

Then I found out Facebook removes that info so I'm happy I don't delete everything first and find this out later.

[Gato]

Jun 4, 2013 21:38:25 GMT -5 speckledfrog said:

Jun 4, 2013 21:12:12 GMT -5 rehabaddict said:

They did a news story about this a few years ago. They were able to GPS in on a photo, to the exact bedroom, the bed a child was sitting on when it was taken. This info is stored in the file and can be pulled very easily.

  Ths was pretty much my face reading that

Ditto.  I knew that researchers sometimes use data from people's cell phones, but I thought that could only be obtained in an  aggregate, and was anonymous.  I hadn't really thought about how this information could be used by a bad guy.  Yikes.

[sawyerthedestroyer]

Add this to the growing list of why I don't want a smart phone.

[styme46]

I didn't know this either! I followed the directions to turn it off on my iPhone and it was already off thank goodness!

[lilybug]

Jun 4, 2013 21:47:32 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Yes, I got it via email from my grandfather so I hit up snopes all prepared to show him it was false. Then I saw it was real and started frantically stalking myself.

Then I found out Facebook removes that info so I'm happy I don't delete everything first and find this out later.

I thought it sounded fake and alarmist at first, too. I mean, really, gps data encoded in pictures... it's mind boggling to me. But I'm like a caveman when it comes to technology and don't even have a smartphone, so there's that. lol

[HiC]

Yes, I saw this on a news show a year or so ago. Mine was already in the off setting when I went to go turn off that feature. 

[Deleted]

It's fairly common knowledge.

[Deleted]

I know nothing about anything when it comes to technology, so this is brand new information for me.

[underwaterrhymes]

Jun 4, 2013 21:54:28 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

It's fairly common knowledge.

LOL. This does not surprise me.

I learned to type on a typewriter, had a Brother word processor in college, and didn't have my first email account until 1998 or my first cell phone until 2001. I'm generally behind the times.

[fuckyourcouch]

Yeah I knew this, I've had it off since day 1. I don't even think it should be an option to be enabled though, it's shitty.

[jennifertx]

I think I remember seeing a Dateline (or something like that) episode on this a while back.

[pursemeatballs]

Jun 4, 2013 21:12:29 GMT -5 @pnkybrwstr said:

Don't feel bad, I just learned you can zoom in using the iPhone camera.

I did not know this.

I'm also all to the address info. I'm about to go to that link to try and figure out how to turn off that feature, but if I can't even figure out how to zoom with my phone, I may be a lost cause.