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And, Face It, Nobody Really Needs To Know Where You Are
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You take a photo of yourself with your cell phone. You upload it to a website or Facebook or Twitter, and you put a line under it saying that it's at your home. Chances are you've just announced to the technically savvy exactly where you live, because the picture could have geotags telling folks where the picture was taken. Now, that's no big deal if you're not a celebrity and you don't announce where you are at all times, but if, say, you post a geotagged picture from your home, which has your home coordinates, and then someone uses that and your Foursquare posts to determine that you're far from home, that's an invitation for burglary. So maybe you'll want to turn that geotagging off. (New York Times)
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