OK it was brought up that if you take a fish picture with your iphone for instance, and you post it on the interweb someplace, that cyber detectives can locate the position by using the info your iphone attaches to the pic. While I have not done it or would know how to, I believe it is possible. How do I keep this from happening to me? Is there a way of deleting that info from the pictures before posting one?
Or do I have to shut off that feature in my phone now that I got with the 21st century and have the lifeproof case to bring it fishing with me.
I don't need the masses ascending on any spots because of my lack of tech skills.

any thoughts?

I have a perfect solution.......leave the damn phone at home!! I do!! At the very least I leave it in the truck or its off.....buy a camera??:uhuh:

Bruce, on the iPhone, you just go into settings, click on privacy and then turn off location setting for camera and any other features you don't want it used for.
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using something other than their software , crop and resize the picture and then save as and then rename it. You usually have to resize it to post it anyway. I use Thumbsplus usually.

i have been reading READING
and i know about this....
let's see ....how to explain it ....
ya know how you can take 3 or 4 pictures of a skyline
and then later "stitch" them together to create a wide angle view?

well as seen on TED
every picture is being saved in this enormous data base
and it is auto stitching them altogether so you have a 3D 360 degree view.
so, pictures taken of say the CANAL (for example)
taken years apart are being auto collaged
as if they are a PUZZLE piece from thousands of photo's

Thanks Raven thats soooo much better! LOL!!! :rotf2:

Paranoia may destroy ye. Anybody remember that song.
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Wouldn't you have to first catch a fish for this to be a problem?
You should be OK, Bruce.

That's why I pee everywhere I catch a fish to mark my territory
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Bruce, on the iPhone, you just go into settings, click on privacy and then turn off location setting for camera and any other features you don't want it used for.
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All electronic devices that take pictures have a setting that can be disabled. Depends on the device where the setting (called geotags within pictures & videos) is located.

Anyone watch Mythbusters? Check out this article - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/technology/personaltech/12basics.html?_r=0

Thanks

from that article Moses:
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“I’d say very few people know about geotag capabilities,” said Peter Eckersley, a staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, “and consent is sort of a slippery slope when the only way you can turn off the function on your smartphone is through an invisible menu that no one really knows about.”

Indeed, disabling the geotag function generally involves going through several layers of menus until you find the “location” setting, then selecting “off” or “don’t allow.” But doing this can sometimes turn off all GPS capabilities, including mapping, so it can get complicated.
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sounds harder than it should be


I have a camera, it is not waterproof and it is too big, remember I carry a big plugbag but it's full of plugs no room for a big camera.
I do sometimes catch fish George, I will fish that small darter you gave me until I catch a fish on it and might just take a pic of it for you.


I do re-size the pictures and save them, then do the upload thing here before posting, does that get rid of the geotag? I suspect not.

using something other than their software , crop and resize the picture and then save as and then rename it. You usually have to resize it to post it anyway. I use Thumbsplus usually.
Because of how the data is stored, this method is not foolproof.

Some new cameras have GPS...and they do tag.

Like someone mentioned...disable it.

I have not investigated this stuff, but it might be in the info header or embedded in the format.

You should really just stick with this : http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/stripertalk/81722-rent-bass-become-sharpie.html

Your catch rate will improve drastically, he can photo shop you with a cow on the Eiffel Tower, or even somewhere in Vegas. Imagine a picture holding a 32" slob on the top of Ceasar's Palace?

I had Danny help me disable the gps on the camera part.


Andy, thanks I will take some shots of me holding my hands out ,while I am in Vegas for my anniversary next month. How about in front of those fountains or something :D "look what I just pulled out of here"

Because of how the data is stored, this method is not foolproof.

If you simply resize and save I agree but doesn't cropping it then resizing and saving under a new name create a totally new file ? I'm not sure.

Bring all fish to Wollaston beach for photos.
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All that stuff is stored in the EXIF data. If you upload your photos on facebook, they're fine- FB doesn't u/l that data. Don't know about other image hosting sites...

Keep life simple...Keep your mouth shut, and your photos offline... Like your father and grandfather did. (or at least wait til the season ends)

Sure, we all want the world to know we are the worlds best fisherman, but it comes with a price after the fact.

I couldn't view any exif data from this site either. I tried with about 8 uploads and only get a message that says the data has been totally or partially removed from the pic. That doesn't mean all pics here have the info removed, or does it? Maybe those pics just weren't tagged? :confused:

all you need to do is shut off your google maps on your smart phone. Most smart phones have "maps" that can show your location to friends and/or tag your locations in a picture. Just shut off the feature or if it asks "where was this picture taken?", just say frickin Disney or something....lol. But shutting off your google maps and sometimes facebook settings will take care of that and your wife won't know.....I mean people won't know where you were. lol

Keep life simple...Keep your mouth shut, and your photos offline... Like your father and grandfather did. (or at least wait til the season ends)

Sure, we all want the world to know we are the worlds best fisherman, but it comes with a price after the fact.


BINGO! Just don't post them in the first place and know one will know your position.

If everyone sends me pics of their fish over say 45lbs, I will go through each one to see if the gps info is available. I will let you know if I find that info when I am finished with the project so that you can act accordingly.

Android 4.0 and up should just have an option in the camera settings that allows you to turn off geotagging your photos. No need to turn off GPS, location services, or anything else. At least mine does, but I have 4.2

OK...
Trying again...
(Don't ask how I got there)



Your right it seems to strip off the GPS data. I know I have downloaded them before, I did it last summer. When I have time I will try to figure it out.

Nice fish!

Slip - I remember you said to me at Cutty "you know what my phone does? Makes phones calls!"

LOL, glad to see you updated!

OK...
Tell me exactly where and when this was caught ...
Don't ask how I got there

Did you do it on THIS image posted on SB or a prior version upon which you uploaded? Makes a difference , maybe?

All my attempts showed no original photo/camera info.....not that I'm a (good) hacker but like a challenge.:)


If info is there, I'm sure Raven will find it!

you have to download the image to your computer. THEN open it and examine the properties (scroll all the way down)

BTW I think you can extract the exif data from FB images, but you have to download the image to your machine, you can not simply right click on a FB image you need the file on your machine so you have the right privileges.

OK...
Tell me exactly where and when this was caught ...
Don't ask how I got there

Isn't this the 70+ lber taken down in Virginia or Maryland that was making the rounds earlier? Sure looks familiar. Spawning season so had to be released or at least thats how I remembered it.

Yup did that, must have cheap software, yup, but all the pic &camera properties were blank.
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Nice fish!

Slip - I remember you said to me at Cutty "you know what my phone does? Makes phones calls!"

LOL, glad to see you updated!


HA, that sounds like me
:D
I am glad too



Jim, isn't that the fish that would have been a world record but it was caught out of season down south of here someplace?

My app shows no gps thus no exif
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<runs out of this thread to do research in the tramp stamp thread>

OK...
Trying again...
(Don't ask how I got there)



Your right it seems to strip off the GPS data. I know I have downloaded them before, I did it last summer. When I have time I will try to figure it out.

Did you swap the pic? Because I can tell you where that one was taken.

OK...
Trying again...
(Don't ask how I got there)



Your right it seems to strip off the GPS data. I know I have downloaded them before, I did it last summer. When I have time I will try to figure it out.

The exif data is def there and with the software I have one click brings me to the the exact locale on google earth. Very interesting... What the hell were you... oh nevermind. Awesome. lol