Social networking sites make it easy to upload digital pictures. It’s simple. Afterward, part of the fun is reading the reactions of your friends. Unfortunately, scammers and would-be thieves are also finding opportunities via your photos.
How? Meet the Geo-Tag. Geo-Tags add geographical identification to various media such as video, SMS messages and websites but are more commonly used for Photographs. These bits of information are embedded in digital photos and tell someone where a picture was taken by providing latitude and longitude coordinates, they can also include altitude and bearing. As usual, the criminal sorts have found a way to exploit this seemingly innocent info.
Combined with photo time and date stamps, criminals can use geo-tags to find out where you live and what your daily patterns are. If your photos also reveal particularly gorgeous jewelry or stereo equipment worthy of an 80’s glam-rock band, the bad guys can use that information to, as they say, relieve you of your valuables.
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How? Meet the Geo-Tag. Geo-Tags add geographical identification to various media such as video, SMS messages and websites but are more commonly used for Photographs. These bits of information are embedded in digital photos and tell someone where a picture was taken by providing latitude and longitude coordinates, they can also include altitude and bearing. As usual, the criminal sorts have found a way to exploit this seemingly innocent info.
Combined with photo time and date stamps, criminals can use geo-tags to find out where you live and what your daily patterns are. If your photos also reveal particularly gorgeous jewelry or stereo equipment worthy of an 80’s glam-rock band, the bad guys can use that information to, as they say, relieve you of your valuables.
> http://us.norton.com/clubsymantec/library/article.jsp?aid=cs_protect_your_digital_photos&Om_em_cid=hho_email_clubnorton_oct11_nam_us_ar
