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Originally Posted by Steeveedee
There is one other benefit to doing that. The pictures you take on a phone may have the location embedded in them. Adam Savage of MythBusters took a picture of something at his house and got visitors who tracked him down. He had moved by the time the person(s) visited his old house. Somehow running them through paint removes the geographical information. That's something that I'm going to check on my pics.
From wikipedia-
"To find an image's exif data, right-click the photo and select either “properties” or “information”. If the GPS coordinates appear, simply type them into Google Maps to find the location."
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Nice to know. Kind of scary. We are being tracked everywhere by everyone, by any means. Want to add this site is beneficial to me and have been a member for some time. Like to see it continue despite any slight inconvenience's.