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| Satellite view of Washington, D.C. area |
Those of you who use smartphones and other GPS-enabled cameras, and post pictures taken from them directly to your Facebook, Myspace and Twitter pages may want to watch this video, and give some serious thought to what you're doing.
I'm willing to bet that many people have no idea that this is actually happening, but it is.
You can watch the video here.
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| Google Earth view of US Navy complex at Coronado, CA |
I think the biggest issue here is that most people probably have no idea that this private location info is being recorded and made public without their knowledge and consent.
This is clearly the fault of the device manufacturers (Apple, Blackberry, etc.), in that they are not making their customers aware that the exact latitude and longitude coordinates of each picture taken are being included in the photos themselves.
I would guess that none of the manufacturers have made this known in a clear and straightforward way to the millions of people who are buying and using their products.
Perhaps these manufacturers are voluntarily complying with some government initiative to implement (and very quietly include) this privacy-invading technology into their mobile communication devices, and are being rewarded generously with some of the trillions of "stimulus" money that no one seems to know where it went, or what it has done to improve our still ongoing economic crisis (i.e., nothing whatsoever).
But now you know - so be very careful about who you're giving your most personal information to out there.
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