Protect your sites - I-Phone Warning

[N.J.THer]

This news story was about protecting your family if you take pictures with your I-Phone then post online. I don't use an I-Phone so I'm not concerned about it but then I started to think about people using their I-phones to take pictures while out metal detecting. It is as if you are giving directions to your sites.

Watch video:

Be careful out there.

NJ

 

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[lostcauses]

I just checked and photos posted on this site do have the exact location the photos were taken. It works

Wow, glad I don't use a phone for pics.

I wounder if I should warn people of this on such posts; photos are posted, with such data atached??

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Todays technology is alarming. Its like Big Brother 1984 coming true. Turn off the GPS.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

That is alarming right there.

 

[N.J.THer]

I just checked and photos posted on this site do have the exact location the photos were taken. It works

Wow, glad I don't use a phone for pics.

I wounder if I should warn people of this on such posts; photos are posted, with such data atached??

If your going to do that then send them a private message...I would not post it on the thread for the world to see.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Happily I gave a Go Phone without camera, or apps . . . Heck, even I can't get information out of it.

 

[lostcauses]

I just checked and photos posted on this site do have the exact location the photos were taken. It works

Wow, glad I don't use a phone for pics.

I wounder if I should warn people of this on such posts; photos are posted, with such data atached??

If your going to do that then send them a private message...I would not post it on the thread for the world to see.

Debatable and I am still thinking about it.
It odes awnser some questions I have had about folks telling me some things an woundering how others got the information.

So far other than the few I have warned open and through PMs, I will just direct em to this thread. This information should be posted to the top of the Today's Finds!, and the artifact section CRHing etc.

The worst risk of this is for some thief trolling to find a place to rip off.

Of course finding folks on a site might not be to fun.
Also such locations attached to photos could get folks investigated by Law Enforcement if they were in the wrong place.

It is a problem it seems.

 

[N.J.THer]

The worst risk of this is for some thief trolling to find a place to rip off.

I was thinking about this last night. How many people state online that they have been hunting for 30+ years or they post a picture of all the gold they have accumulated while detecting. Most likely that picture was taken in their home and if it was done with an I-Phone it gives thiefs a prime target. I know a few people that detect and had their homes robbed and I always thought it was a random act but now I'm thinking it may not have been.

I just want people to be safe. I even debated about posting this because I did not want to give people any ideas but then I figured the criminal community is usually very up on technology and most likely already know this. From the story it sounds like the easy fix to protect yourself is to just change your settings.

NJ

 

[lostcauses]

N.J.THer
I suspect it could be also related to missing people and children also.

It is a bad thing in my opinion.
Personal security is at risk with this being the default setting of these phones.

 

[N.J.THer]

N.J.THer
I suspect it could be also related to missing people and children also.

It is a bad thing in my opinion.
Personal security is at risk with this being the default setting of these phones.

Fully agree.

I know my brothers kids have I-Phones and don't think twice about posting pictures to Facebook. They are attractive young teenagers which a online psycho could target. I called him first thing to warn him of this. My kids are still too young to have phones and me and the wife are not into the new hot phone and both use antique models.

NJ

 

[windage]

all kinds of scary implications, the least of which is giving away the location of your "honey hole" site.

I was an early adopter of cell phones...made my first cell based call in 1985 bought my first car-install in 1987, now after 25 years, I have quit cell phones altogether, cold turkey and am less stressed and much more at peace.
I run 3 businesses and I remember how we did things before cell phones....we planned ahead.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

I'm trying to be the only human out here in Denver that has never had a cellphone. Annoys my friends to no end, and at times one could really come in handy, (detecting up in the higher area ghost towns), but just don't want one.
Carl

 

[jeff of pa]

Saw this last year.
& Ya Know,
It's like how the nightly News advertising
the Latest Drug the Kids should be into.

if
they didn't advirtise this in these
so Called warnings nobody
would Know.


Not that it effects me.

My Phone is a Phone

My Camera is a Camera

If I Had a GPS guess what.

it would be a GPS

 

[snakeyes]

Sounds like the same kind of story they were showing on the news this past summer. They were showing you how crooks make a bump key, that will open most common door locks and they even showed pic on U tube on how to actually do it. Dosen't everybody need this kind of info wtf

 

[handy]

have a trashy area that you want cleaned up? use the iphone to take pics of gold and silver there sometimes you have to think outside the box

 

[Buff4]

N.J.THer.... Thank you for posting this. I have a 27 year old daughter that is phone crazy and is constantly taking pictures of her daughter as well as others.

 

[Lakemonster]

Just turn off the GPS on your phone or change the picture settings to exclude location stamps.

OR...

Download them to you computer, then go under image properties, click the details tab and then at the bottom click "Remove properties and personal information".

 

[mts]

This is not just a phone thing. There are many point and shoot cameras coming out these days with GPS tagging. So don't think that if you use your camera instead of your phone that you are covered.

As Lakemonster pointed out, you need to turn off the GPS tagging function AND make sure by going into the settings of the picture to make sure no personal information is there.

This issue was brought to the forefront last year and a lot of devices now come with this disabled by default for security reasons.