Continuing with privacy on the internet,
did you know that the pictures you take with your smart phone can reveal the
location that they were taken?? Sounds strange but it is
true...................Each picture you take contains metadata, which is data
about data. Metadata is hidden in most common document types, hidden from the
average viewer. The data is used by computer programs to provide processing
information such as what version of software was used to create the document,
how it was encoded and even who created it. For example, most photo software, especially many
online photo storage websites........................have Geotagging (recording
of Latitude and Longitude) and face recognition.................location is one
of the options saved in the JPEG file (which is the file your photos are saved
in).


Fortunately, most
modern digital cameras do not automatically add geolocation to your pictures,
but your SMARTPHONE does! Most all smart phones have GPS locator installed so
the cameras in your phone already come equipped with the location finding
geolocator and automatically add the information to your pictures when they are
taken. With social media such as twitter, foursquares, and the new Facebook
Places, pictures are easily pinpointed to their (or your) exact location. Most
people do not realize this when they post their pictures on their favorite media
outlet. Now
that may be fine and dandy for you, and once again I am not going to go into my
ranting and raving about online privacy, but what does concern me most is that
most people do not have the knowlege readily given to them to become educated on
this matter, and have no idea that when they post pictures of themselves in
"real-time" on vacation in Cancun, that they are announcing to every Tom, Dick
and Harry HELLO I AM OUT OF TOWN, GO ROB MY HOUSE!! I believe people
should be given the CHOICE whether they want to enable this option
and fully understand what is being done with their information that they post
everyday on the net. Current laws are so "behind the times" when it comes to
internet privacy laws, and most changes that are being enacted into new laws are
not for protecting our (mine, yours, everybody's) privacy. At a later time I
will go into debt on how we need to be more vocal on what laws need to be
changed and what we need to do about it.....................but for now I will
give a few instuctions on how to disable the geotagging on your smartphones.
Warning though, disabling some geotagging on certain brand phones can disable
all you geotagging options, such as your GPS map finder....................I
will include the ones that do and let you decide on which is more
important.........................
These instructions were
copied from http://icanstalku.com/ a
website that is concerned about online privacy. Check it
out...................it is very informative!

(Via
Charles)

Apple
greatly simplified the way to turn off location services on a per-application
basis. To see your settings, go to Settings, General, then Location Services.
From there you can set which applications can access your GPS coordinates or
disable it entirely.

With
the iOS 3.x there are two ways to disable Geotagging of photos. The first
involves disabling of all location based services. To disable this feature, Go
to Settings, General then set Location Services to off.

Be
warned: This will turn off ALL
location based services for ALLapplications.
Of course we may actually have need to use location based services for other
applications (such as maps and driving directions, or getting robbed via
Foursquare), but just not for our pictures.

There
is no easy way to disable location based servces for just one application.
However, we can make the iPhone prompt us at first use for each application.
Once reset, the first time we enter the application we can enable or disable
location based services for the application. To do so we need to go to Settings,
General, Reset.

Be
careful here! We want to select Reset Location Warnings, and then Reset
Warnings. This restores all of our Location based warnings for each application
to the default, which in most cases is "Ask on first use".

From
here, once we enter into the default Camera app on the iPhone, we can select
Don't Allow. This will prevent the Camera app from geotagging our
photos.

Palm
has made it fairly easy to disable applications from accessing the GPS without
your explicit permission. If you bring up the "Location Services" configuration
screen, there should be three options: Auto Locate, Geotag Photos, and
Background Data Collection. Ideally, all three should be turned off.

To
disable geotagging photos, simply turn the "Geotag Photos" option off. If "Auto
Locate" is off, the "Geotag Photos" option will not be displayed as the Pre will
not geotag photos with "Auto Locate" off. Once the "Geotag Photos" is turned
off, the camera appplication will no longer geo tag photos. As a side note, if
"Auto Locate" is off, the Pre will prompt you anytime an application requests
your location from the GPS. This allows you to know who's asking to find out
where you are.

Like
the iPhone, there are two ways to turn off geotagging. To completely disable GPS
location finding for all applications, we will need to do the following:

Press
the Menu Key and then Settings

Then
press Location and security

By
default, GPS is on. Uncheck it to turn it off

Like
disabling the GPS in the iPhone, this will break location based information for
all applications, including legitimate uses.

In
order to disable for just the camera application, start the Camera app to make
sure that you are not saving your location. This is the menu on the left side of
the camera application; it slides out from left to right.

Select
"Store Location" and make sure it is set to off.

Once
this is disabled, the camera app will no longer add geotags to your images.

There
are multiple ways to disable the geo-tags on Blackberry. We details three ways
here:

(Via
Bug_Bear)

Select
Options, Advanced Options, GPS, press Menu key, Select Disable GPS and select
Yes to confirm. This will disable all GPS capabilities on the phone.

(Via
Bug_Bear)

Select
Options, Security, Applications Permissions, menu select Edit on the application
(default is Prompt for BB Core), Expand Connections, Change Location (GPS) to
"Deny", or you can disable within the application. Most apps i.e. Google Maps,
Ubertwitter, etc... will just default everything to "allow" for app perms
regardless of app settings chosen during setup.

(Via
an anonymous contributor... Thanks!)

Go
into picture-taking mode (via HomeScreen, click icon "Camera"), press the Menu
button and choose "Options". Set the "Geotagging" setting to be "Disabled".
Finally, save the updated settings.

(it's a bit old but pretty usefull for users that ingore the gifts of new technology...)

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