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Be Careful with your photos (from the Precious Metals forum)

leftofdialleftofdial Posts: 443 ✭✭
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I'm sure that a lot of you already know about this, but hop over to the Precious Metals forum and check out the "be careful with your photos" topic posted by Kip. I didn't know about this and I'm very glad he posted it for old timers like me that has no idea what technology can do nowdays. Thank you Kip!

We all like to share photos of our collections so I think this is on the topic of Sports Cards and Memorabilia and apologize to anyone who thinks it's off topic. I am very thankful to know this is possible for people to do.

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  • EchoCanyonEchoCanyon Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭
    link?
  • leftofdialleftofdial Posts: 443 ✭✭
    Kip linked it -just go to The Coins Forum, and in the precious metals subtopic, there's a topic called "be careful with your photos"

    I didn't link it because I didn't want to be stealing his post, just trying to help out card collectors like me who aren't aware of phone capabilities and never visit the Coins forum.
  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,950 ✭✭✭✭
    linky

    At first I was like, yeah this is gonna be nothing new... but I explored it anyway and it really is an interesting detail about photos.

    Basically the deal is, if a photo was taken with a camera that has the option of "geotagging" it, someone could track exactly where that photo was taken. For example, if you take a photo of your baseball card collection and post it to a forum, someone could open that photo file in their little program and find out exactly where that photo was taken, thus exposing the location of your precious collection.

    My cell phone is set to NOT geotag my photos, and I think that was a default setting. However, I did a test on some of my older vacation photos and lo and behold, it showed exactly where I took that photo, within a few feet accuracy. Craziness!

    This video was quite informative. I installed this program and it's plugins, and it works like it does in the video.

    Thanks for the share!
  • esquiresportsesquiresports Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭
    There is an iPhone app called DeGeo which is handy. Removes geotag information prior to uploading.
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  • WhiteTornadoWhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
    Reminds me of a post on the US Coin Forum about a year ago. Someone posted a pic showing off all their coins which are kept in a safe deposit box. Looked like he had stacked them up in the viewing room at the bank. Another member replied that he just PM-ed the guy with the name and address of the bank where it was taken, then cautioned everyone about this very topic.
  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
    For iPhone, go to Settings, Privacy, Location Services, Camera - then turn camera off.

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  • WhiteTornadoWhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭


    << <i>For iPhone, go to Settings, Privacy, Location Services, Camera - then turn camera off. >>



    Thanks, I had that off for Camera, but I also have the Camera+ app and had to turn if off for that one. After I upload pics to my PC, I always use Windows Properties to delete any of the personal information data from the picture files.
  • KurtisJosephKurtisJoseph Posts: 214 ✭✭✭
    I saw a news special saying it's for this same reason you shouldn't take pictures of your kids and post on social media. . .sick world.
  • cincyredlegscincyredlegs Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭
    That is very scary. I have the best fix........I don't have an iPhone. I only have a flip top phone. The guys at the National busted my gnads every day about it. image

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  • bobsbbcardsbobsbbcards Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I only have a flip top phone. >>


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  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,950 ✭✭✭✭
    I experimented with my own photos, testing my vacation photo from my PC and testing that same photo in which I had uploaded to Facebook. The one from my PC had the geotag on it, but the one on Facebook didn't. I even tested those I had posted on here from my Photobucket and those too were untraceable. Makes me wonder if you can only do it with a raw image that you host on your own domain.
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>For iPhone, go to Settings, Privacy, Location Services, Camera - then turn camera off. >>



    And for non apple fanboys ( image ), you can either turn off the GPS tag on your camera settings or make Big Brother semi-blind by turning off the phone GPS via the drop down menu on your home screen.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>For iPhone, go to Settings, Privacy, Location Services, Camera - then turn camera off. >>



    And for non apple fanboys ( image ), you can either turn off the GPS tag on your camera settings or make Big Brother semi-blind by turning off the phone GPS via the drop down menu on your home screen. >>


    +1, GPS is always off on mine, except when absolutely necessary for something like Maps, for the battery savings alone. Not tagging pictures with it is a nice bonus image
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  • Baez578Baez578 Posts: 967 ✭✭✭
    Thx for the info guys. Had no clue
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