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Posted on: 8/13/13 11:14 AM ET
WATCH THIS

Very creepy how easy it is for people to find out info on you. I checked my phone, the geo-tagging is off.
  
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Posted on: 8/13/13 6:35 PM ET
Thank you for this!
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Posted on: 8/13/13 6:49 PM ET
That is bad. Sometimes just posting any pictures of small kids (where you can ID them and see their faces), on line is just bad too though.

I would have thought that people taking photo's with their smart cell phones, would just often down load them into their real computer first, and get them on their computer's hard drive, and even be admiring them or cropping them or something in thier graphics software or such, and maybe even renaming them in the real computer first, and then up load to some place on line. In that case, then I don't think you would have any of those particular issues, just the same ever, sort of no matter what.

I actually think smart phones should be just called "tracker devices" just since that is sort of just what you are wearing or carrying around, when you even got one on you if 24/7 like that. I think technology is just technology, but can be used for good or bad. To find some lost small child or have the parents know where they are, as parents even do that on purpose sometimes, then the "tracker part of it" probably is good then. If they are way older, and you just want to know where they took you car they borrowed from you, then I think that getting into a real iffy area, I think real old fashioned communication, between two people, would always be a lot better. Also in case you were driving in a remote area and went off the road, and were in a coma or something, then at that point you might even really want the police and rescue people to be able to find you that way. For some other stuff, probably not so much.
  
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Posted on: 8/13/13 6:55 PM ET
Thanks, I turned mine off as well.
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Posted on: 8/13/13 7:18 PM ET
Thanks for sharing this.. I checked mine - my camera is switched off for Location Services; but it was a good thign to check. I've alerted my friends as well.
  
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