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NWR..I just had to share. This is pretty scary!

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    JsDragonfly    December 29, 2009  

    Hey Bees, I may be a little late to the game on this one, but this video is downright scary.  It explains how we can be tracked through our smartphones with pictures we've posted online.  Apparently it's called geotagging (like I said, I'm probably late to the game...not the quickest one with the latest & greatest technology lol).  I just thought I would post this so if anyone regularly posts pics of themselves or loved ones online from the smartphones...now you can know how to turn that feature off.

    It kind of reminds me of the bee the other day whose ex found an email that she said he couldn't possibly know about.  Makes me wonder how many of us can be tracked without even realizing it.  Anyhoo...here's the video.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vARzvWxwY

     
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    sceeder    June 23, 2012  

    Yep, and that is why I don't post from my phone. Scary Stuff!

     
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    MrsSl82be    October 24, 2009  

    OMG this is crazy scary...gotta tell the hubs about this

     
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    Ms Hedgehog    July 10, 2011   Dallas/ Ft Worth TX

    Yep and the FBI owns Facebook and tracks your every move through that...

     
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    nona49    June 5, 2010  

    WOW.  That was scary.  I just changed my iphone settings

     
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    DesireeAnne    October 13, 2012   South Jersey

    Yeah, I remember when my camera on my iPhone would ask me if I wanted it to locate my area and I'd always hit disallow or whatever.  I just thought it was completely weird that my photos could be pinpointed to an area when there's no reason for it to be.  Thanks for sharing the video.

     
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    Sghetti    April 24, 2010  

    That's just scary!  Thanks for posting this!

     
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    JsDragonfly    December 29, 2009  

    I figured alot of people might want to know about this...Me??? I just learned how to email pictures from my phone to myself. lol 

     
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    FutureMrsMcDermott    February 2016  

    oh no...i post from my phone all the time!

     
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    runnerbeez    May 31, 2014  

    @Ms Hedgehog: Mark Zuckerberg works for the FBI!? ;)

     
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    daydreamwanderer       DC

    *************

    http://icanstalku.com/how.php#disable for instructions on how to disable this feature on popular phones!!!

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    MsBrooklynA       Midwest

    In disabling the geotagging does that mess with your ability to use google maps or to use gps to find other things?

     
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    daydreamwanderer       DC

    @MsBrooklynA: There are two ways to disable on most phones. One disables just the geotagging on photos (through the camera menu), the other disables all of your gps related stuff (through the settings menu). It explains the difference in the video + in the link I shared above ^

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