CHILD SAFETY - GPS Data in your photos

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Your children are at risk! GPS data can be stored with every smartphone photograph you or your child takes. While swimming, while camping, while driving down the road, while playing in their bedroom.

Many of these photos are posted online with no second thought as to what they contain. GPS mapping from photographs is SUPER EASY. Do you want perpetrators to know where your children are immediately after sharing a photo?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vARzvWxwY

How to turn off GPS location services:
In iOS 6: Settings>Privacy>Location Services>Camera:Off
In iOS 5: Settings>General>Location Services>Camera:Off
In Android v2.x: Camera>Menu>gearIcon(Settings)>Geo-Tag photos:Off

Really, this is old news, but we forget. When you replace your phone or buy your kids one, be sure to take precaution.

To remove EXIF Data from your existing photos (on a computer only), follow these instructions: lifehacker.com/5756373/how-can-i-remove-personal-info-like-locaion-from-photographs

Here are some alternative software to remove EXIF data:
codewelt.com/stripper
pixelgarde.com/ (not completely free)
www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ (advanced commandline program)