Are your images revealing your location?

Laughing Grass

Laughing Grass

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Important Reminder:

If location services are enabled on your device, anyone who downloads a photo may be able to see the location where it was taken.

To protect your privacy, I strongly recommend disabling this feature.

For iOS:
  • Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location Services.
  • Select Camera, then choose Never.

For Android:
  • Open the Camera app.
  • Tap the gear icon to access Settings.
  • Scroll to the General section and turn off Location tags.
    (Note: These options may also appear under More settings, depending on your device.)
 
koikeeper said:
That works to a point if I do a sunset picture and a topography map you could figure out where I am.
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With an EXIF viewer plugin for chrome this is what I see. If I click the location pin it will open google maps and show me the precise location that the photo was taken.

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could always use a hacked device and spoof your gps location so it gives incorrect exif data. however this would likely require a jailbroken iphone or a rooted android device. if i were to suggest amusing locations for your fake exif data i would suggest that pub in ireland where google street view could never get a good photo because the guys out front would always moon the car as it went by :eyesmoke:
 
xox said:
could always use a hacked device and spoof your gps location so it gives incorrect exif data. however this would likely require a jailbroken iphone or a rooted android device. if i were to suggest amusing locations for your fake exif data i would suggest that pub in ireland where google street view could never get a good photo because the guys out front would always moon the car as it went by :eyesmoke:
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