Smartphone pictures pose privacy risks

 

Pictures you've e-mailed or uploaded from your smartphone could leak information that can threaten your safety or that of your children. Visit http://tinyurl.com/smartphonerisks to read much more on this investigation.

 

Parents warned to disable geotagging before posting kids' pics

                  

A safety warning that surfaced in 2010 is making the rounds again. Parents are reminded to disable geotagging and location services on photographs taken of their children from their smart phones and posted to Facebook, Twitter or other websites with public access. The concern is that tech-savvy, ill-intentioned people could potentially track down the exact location the photo was taken — a child's school, daycare, your neighborhood park or home. "Basically, what you're doing is you're telling the bad guy … where [you] live and recreate," said Officer Mark Chudik of the Leawood, Kan., police department. [Source]

 

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