One of the great things about smartphones is that you can send and share pictures instantly -- pictures of your kids at a sporting event, a family function, or a birthday party, for instance. But did you know that doing so makes them (or anyone in the photo) vulnerable by revealing their location? Here's how:
When you share photos via smartphones, there is hidden data attached to each photo -- called "metadata" -– which can include information about the location where the photo was taken. Child predators and criminals can use technology to download these shared photos and pinpoint the location of the sender, to within 15 feet. (So, if you send that photo of your kids at a birthday party, someone could track to the location of where the photo was sent.)
It's a scary prospect, but the good news is that you can disable this geo-tagging function. To learn how, you can visit this website.
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