Are your smartphone pics giving away your location?
By Herb Weisbaum & GMAThese days a picture is worth more than a thousand words. Audio
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It could tell the world where you live, work or go to school. Adam Savage, co-host of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel is a tech savvy guy. But he had no idea that when he posted a picture of his car parked in front of his house that he was also putting his home address on the Internet. "I think it's important that people know what they want to let out online and what they don't and they need to draw a pretty clear line." The process is called geo-tagging. It embeds the exact location of where the photo was taken -- latitude and longitude -- to within about 15 feet. This feature is built into many GPS-enabled cameras and almost all smartphones. It's a great way to figure out where you took a photo. But do you really want others to have this information? Gerald Friedland is a computer expert at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, Calif. "So let's assume you are a thief or let's assume you want to stalk somebody, can you do it? And shockingly enough we found out yes you can do it and it's actually pretty easy." For more information |
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February 9, 2012
- Roseburg, Oregon
