Protecting your spots.

    It seems most apparent in California dive reports but protecting dive locations by altering photos is common and smart in my opinion. In California there are often readily identifiable landmarks. Florida photos seem to be taken so far out at see that there is no concern of that.


    Yesterday while at home sick I saw a report on GMA I think that said a lot of the new cameras and cell phones that have GPS capabilities are including the gps co-ordinates of the photo in the file information. I just received a phone from my wife the same day (Blackberry Torch) and it has this feature. Just thought I'd mention it so that you can be aware. It would be pointless to go through all the effort of visually editing a photo just to have the gps co-ordinates in the image properties. The good news is that the feature can usually be turned off.

    Heard about this on talk-radio the other morning.


    Some celebrity had posted a picture that had his house in the backround and someone was able to find the location of his house. Pic was posted on Facebook, I think.


    Not something that anyone would be able to find out though. The GPS coordinates are imbedded in the code. Would take some no-how, but yes, it can be done if the photographic device is equipped with GPS technology and it is activated.

    very good info thanks that can help for anything no just for fishing .:)


    que viva la pesca :thumbsup2:

    Que viva la pesca :cuba:

    That's why it's always a good plan to remove the exif data from photos before posting them online, there's tons of programs that do it for free on each platform :)

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    wow man, we certainly do live in a different world huh. privacy is something to work for in this technological future of ours.


    For real, I mean who the heck would want their phone tagging their pictures with gps codes in the first place?

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    For real, I mean who the heck would want their phone tagging their pictures with gps codes in the first place?


    The same people who tweet, and let you know their having breakfast at the mall.:rolleyes1:


    Cheers, Don

    "Great mother ocean brought forth all life, it is my eternal home'' Don Berry from Blue Water Hunters.


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    I don't normally wade into conspiracy theory territory but it would not surprise me if those same smart phones were attaching the GPS info to voice packets and text messages. "They" can already narrow your location down by triangulation from cell phone towers. This just seems like the next logical creep.

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    "They" can already narrow your location down by triangulation from cell phone towers. This just seems like the next logical creep.







    Cheers, Don;)

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