Good information to know.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7621105

Also check out the documentary movie CATFISH (We rented ours) This movie was started from a incident on face book. It is all real, no actors. It gives you an idea what can happen

Thanks for the reminder that yes, indeed, we live in a digital worls--AND NEED TO PAY ATTENTION!

Thanks for the heads up, I would have never thought of such a thing. Scary!

I guess I'll think twice about which pictures I take with my phone!!!

Thanks for that!! I never would have thought. I'll stay with taking picture with the digital camera.

wow, I'm stunned! Thanks so much for sharing that info! I will forward to my daughters at college!

Thanks for the info. just watched and sent it to my daughter

Wow, this is one time I'm glad I have an "old-fashioned" cell phone without a GPS.

I am now staying with just pictures off my camera....not good unless I was in trouble and needed emergency help

according to the story, some "regular" digital cameras are also GPS enabled. who knew? :shock:

i'm fairly certain that photos posted here are safe.

i checked a few of the photos i've posted here, plus a few randomly selected from other members' posts.

I was not able to bring up any GPS data. if anybody checks their own photos posted here and is able to bring up GPS data, please let me know so I can consult the tech team.

thank goodness i've always been too cheap to buy a fancy-shmancy camera, and my phone takes lousy pics! :lol:

This would be scary if I could actually replicate it in real life, but I have checked, and I can't. I have a GPS phone and I have posted photos from it to various sites, but no matter how I click on any of these photos, this information does not appear.

Lazy journalism that they do not explain the one key feature in the story- is it a special programme people can buy to read this information? And how can we remove that information before posting?

It just annoys me when the media scare people without actually giving any facts.

that is what keeps them in business

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that isn't news. i've known it for years. :lol:

I got the new iPhone 4 yesterday, and the phone DOES ask you when you set it up if it can publish your location. You can select no. I don't understand why this is even on there. I've also noticed that when you download apps they all say they track your location. I can understand that GPS would need your location, but not every app you download. I think it's Big Brother tracking us more than I think all these app developers want to know where we are.