Warning: If you take photos with your cell phone

[centreoflight]

“‘Warning’ If you, your kids or grand kids take pics from your phone—WATCH THIS!

This is truly alarming – please take the time to watch. At the end they’ll tell you how to set your phone so you don’t run this risk!

PLEASE PASS THIS INFO TO ANYONE YOU KNOW WHO TAKES PICTURES WITH THEIR CELL OR SMART PHONE AND POSTS THEM ONLINE.

I want everyone of you to watch this and then be sure to share with all your family and friends.

It’s REALLY important info, about what your posting things on your cell phones can do TO YOU!!!

Too much technology out there these days so beware………”

Via: Kyeos

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=N2vARzvWxwY

[WhiteFeather]

Interesting. Maybe the NSA should consider this technology.
I couldnt take anymore talking by the assclown news reporters., They totally f...ng creep me out. I had to immediately stop playing the video when I felt that patronizing disturbance emitting from its mouth at around the 0:33 mark. This is why i no longer watch TV and especially the News.

[Sérénité]

Its quite shocking how easily tracked we all are, unwittingly with our own 'consent'...
For the iphone the settings to change are:

Settings-Privacy-Location services-Scroll through apps and slide the bar to grey against any camera devices (better still, slide your Location services to off completely!)

[ulli]

Posted by WhiteFeather (here)
Interesting. Maybe the NSA should consider this technology.
I couldnt take anymore talking by the assclown news reporters., They totally f...ng creep me out. I had to immediately stop playing the video when i felt that patronizing disturbance emitting from his mouth. This is why i no longer watch TV and especially the News.

I know what you mean, WhiteFeather. And considering how easy it is to track down a TV news reporter
one wonders why they are not more alarmed about their own personal security.
But maybe they know quite well that the real threat is something else entirely.
And that they are protected simply by being part of mainstream.

[TargeT]

they are just looking at meta data on the picture, you can scrub this off if you want.


this is not a big risk, it only tells you where the picture was taken.

KNOW YOUR TOOLS!(BEFORE you use them)

This is like driving a car for a year and finally realizing you can open the door while driving 60mph and OMG WHAT A RISK IT IS!!! no, it's a part of how the car is designed....

Solutions:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-ways-...might-want-to/

http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/02/h...ile-photos055/

google this to find out for your self: remove smartphone picture metadata

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by WhiteFeather (here)
Interesting. Maybe the NSA should consider this technology.
I couldnt take anymore talking by the assclown news reporters., They totally f...ng creep me out. I had to immediately stop playing the video when i felt that patronizing disturbance emitting from his mouth. This is why i no longer watch TV and especially the News.

I know what you mean, WhiteFeather. And considering how easy it is to track down a TV news reporter
one wonders why they are not more alarmed about their own personal security.
But maybe they know quite well that the real threat is something else entirely.
And that they are protected simply by being part of mainstream.

they are just parroting what their handlers tell them to say... anything to cause an emotional stir (fear usually).

its BORINGLY predictable, which is one of the main reasons I quit watching TV.

[Jean-Luc]

Not only smartphones

Many digital camera's have this GPS feature too.
http://cameras.about.com/od/reviews/...ps-cameras.htm

[CD7]

<------------------------- Do u think someone will find out tht im on the beach? ;P

[Mad Hatter]

Hmm... I note the video was posted Uploaded on Nov 9, 2010

It's 2013 so here is an update on the current state of play (by one of my heroes)...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=b0w36GAyZIA

which all begs the question...


Source - http://imgur.com/r/conspiracy/OyxjKfL

cheers

[korgh]

This is very obvious in nowadays, but most people don't know the risks involved with the new technologies.
Any phone with cam+gps+any social account to upload = a big trouble.
The issue lies in how do you will distribute your photo. Every digital picture made by any digital camera prints lots of information in the file. This information is called EXIF (EXchangeable Image file Format) and is based in metadata.
You can read more here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchang...ge_file_format
Nowadays, most of smartphone and some digital cameras has embedded a GPS systems that "prints" the location into exif header.
The better alternative to avoid some information escape to the internet is rip off any metadata in the file.
This one is a good free software to do this job: Easy Exif Delete (http://www.easyexifdelete.com)
Doing this BEFORE to upload any photo to social network, you can prevent a lot of trouble.

Anyway, metadata are present in almost any kind of file ( pdf, doc(x), xls, etc...), so be carefull and stay safe.

I hope that helps.

[Axman]

I wish I was Better then -10 lucky duck.

The Axman

Posted by CD7 (here)
<------------------------- Do u think someone will find out tht im on the beach? ;P

[toad]

Yeah its pretty easy to scrub metadata, there are some apps for rooted androids that will do this for you as you take photos. There are a multitude of ways to ID you and find out more information than you realize from photos and other things.



A study with implications for forensics shows that images reflected in bystanders' eyes could yield useful information, despite their low resolution.

Investigators already use images from security cameras and photographs snapped by bystanders to solve crimes, but a new study suggests criminal evidence could actually be found in photos that capture the reflections in bystanders' eyes.

Researchers from the University of York and the University of Glasgow used high-resolution photography to zoom in on faces and eyes in photos to see what's reflected back through bystanders' corneas, and found that observers were able to identify the images accurately, despite their low resolution.

"The pupil of the eye is like a black mirror," research leader Rob Jenkins of the University of York's Department of Psychology said in a statement. "To enhance the image, you have to zoom in and adjust the contrast. A face image that is recovered from a reflection in the subject's eye is about 30,000 times smaller than the subject's face. Our findings thus highlight the remarkable robustness of human face recognition, as well as the untapped potential of high-resolution photography."
The scientists used a 39-megapixel digital camera to shoot high-resolution passport-style photographs of eight individuals in front of staged "witnesses," making sure those "witnesses" were reflected in the individuals' corneas.

Then the scientists showed zoomed-in versions of the witnesses to a control group tasked with matching these highly pixelated faces to normal, in-focus profile pictures. The results showed that the bystanders' faces -- even when very pixelated -- were recognizable.

The team's findings, published in the journal PLOS One under the title "Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections," reaffirmed previous research that showed familiar faces could be identified even if the resolution was "as low as 7x10 pixels."

When used as part of forensic evidence, these reflections could yield additional information about perpetrators of crimes. Say someone snapped a shot of a robbery with a cell phone. Images that captured bystanders' faces could be blown up and examined for clues. The technique could also be valuable in situations where victims are photographed, such as hostage taking, the researchers say.

Mobile phones, of course, are continuously upping the quality of their digital cameras, which could be good news for those collecting evidence. The Nokia 808 PureView, for one, already boasts a 41-megapixel camera, making it, says CNET's Lynn La, "a phone that has so many megapixels, its megapixels have megapixels."