Warning: Don't take MJ pics with your iphone

[wspman]

Did anyone watch Dateline NBC last night, 9/23? It scared the sh*t out of me and I don't own an iphone. It was about some millionaire chick who was kidnapped and held for ransom. The kidnappers took a pic of the chick with their iphone and sent it to her family with the demand for ransom. It only took the police about 10 minutes to access the GPS data embedded in the pic. That's right, GPS data! Every pic taken with an iphone has the GPS coordinates of where the pic was taken embedded in it. The police went right to the location where the pic was taken but the kidnappers had moved. It isn't so easy to move a garden. If you send out pics of your garden taken with an ipone, you are also sending out the GPS data of where that garden is located. Man, this is scary stuff!

 

[Marlo]

Not just iphones bro.

My Canon does the same thing. Most new snazzy cameras leave something called exif data. It can include everything from model and serial number to GPS data.


Anyone uploading pics to this site should be removing all exif data from their pics.

 

[antheis]

Anyone uploading pics to this site should be removing all exif data from their pics.

how does one remove exif data?

 

[ganja_hasi]

scroogle "exif tag remover"

 

[High Country]

I yearn for the good old days of Kodak 35 mm film.

When processed the results were there to see...the bad points...the good points...it made people into photographers with an undertanding of light, balance and subject.

Not this digital photoshop shit...GPS data...I'm fucked.

 

[GP73LPC]

really all you have to do is edit the picture and re-save it. at least the software i use does that.

firefox has an add-on called Exif Viewer. you right click on pic then click view exif data and it will give you lots of shit including long and lat gps coordinates and links to google maps and other mapping web sites... pretty scary.

easy to overcome, just don't get so stoned you take a pic and upload without editing and saving. there may be an app to do this right on the phone, sure there is....

 

[GP73LPC]

if you wanna see how this works and you use firefox, download and install the add-on called Exif Viewer.

then go to google images and type in 'taken with my iphone'. go to page two and pick the picture of the beach. once you click down enough to get the picture full size, right click on view exif data, then click the google maps link. you can go right down to street level. this is just a beach in NY, but you can see how dangerous this could be and is for dummies out there posting their pics all over FB...

 

[zymos]

I yearn for the good old days of Kodak 35 mm film.

When processed the results were there to see...the bad points...the good points...it made people into photographers with an undertanding of light, balance and subject.

Not this digital photoshop shit...GPS data...I'm fucked.

OTOH, unless you have your own darkroom, the person developing them can peek at your pics...

 

[RollmeoneKenobi]

This is just one more reminder that we have no privacy anymore. At least with some forethought it can overcome.

 

[Fastcast]

And I thought everyone new this.This is one reason I just use a video cam for my grow and I'm the only one who see's it.Kinda like the Onstar thing,don't want any of it.Have to remove the battery to disable the signal or just leave it at home.The old days where a little less scary.I really don't even like cell phones.Safe groing

 

[LovableHuggable]

You can turn off the GPS tagging on android cameras. Facebook should remove exif data when you upload the photo. None of mine contain the data when I upload them yet the do when moved from phone to pc. Never does the data contain GPS info.

 

[High Country]

OTOH, unless you have your own darkroom, the person developing them can peek at your pics...

Damn you film developers...the sights they must have seen. I wonder how many prints were done unbeknown to the photographer...scary.

 

[zymos]

Damn you film developers...the sights they must have seen. I wonder how many prints were done unbeknown to the photographer...scary.

I've heard tales of people being arrested for child porn for pictures of their kids in the bathtub.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

how do you know what cameras record exif data? i have a canon powershot sd1000 but its like 4 years old...

 

[GP73LPC]

does it have gps?

 

[Maj.Cottonmouth]

I believe Gypsy posted that the EXIF data was stripped from pics uploaded to IC.


///EDIT/// I am not able to find that post, if someone from IC could confirm or deny this it would be great.

 

[powerrobbie]

This site automatically removes the exif data from the picture. I would not have pictures of my grow taken with my iphone saved on my iphone for the simple fact if a cop or any individual found the phone and accessed the pictures they just click on the picture and click location and a fucking map comes up with the exact spot the picture was taken....pretty fucked. I think only smart phones with gps can record that info cause since the phone has a gps it knows where it is

 

[bakelite]

Use the Exif Cleaner. It should scrub all the info from your pics.

www.superutils.com/products/exifcleaner/

From what I've seen on my camera only save the basic info to the picture file (camera type, resolution, time etc.). You should be able to disable the GPS feature (Geotag) on cellphones.


Hope this helps

-bakelite

 

[trem0lo]

If you use Gimp (like Photoshop but free) to edit your pictures, just uncheck the "save EXIF data" box under advanced options when it prompts you to save, then click "save default" to make it permanent. Tada, no more exif data

 

[MacGyver420]

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