How People Broadcast Their Locations Without Meaning To

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 22, 2011 @04:31AM from the your-face-is-broadcasting-an-ip-address dept.

wjousts writes "Smartphones include geotagging features that many people aren't aware of, MIT's Technology Review reports. And it's not just in the obvious places: 'For example, by looking at the location metadata stored with pictures posted through one man's anonymous Twitter account, the researchers were able to pinpoint his likely home address. From there, by cross-referencing this location with city records, they found his name. Using that information, the researchers went on to find his place of work, his wife's name, and information about his children.'"

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Re:Duh. by _0xd0ad · 2011-04-22 04:36 · Score: 5, Informative

I might as well also point out that 4chan strips the EXIF data from uploaded images for exactly this reason.
Re:Privacy disinterest come home to roost by ThatsMyNick · 2011-04-22 04:46 · Score: 5, Informative

mogrify -strip *.jpg will do!