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IP Address Look-up/Trace: http://www.ip-tracker.org/

 

 

Geotagging Information from Photos:                  

 

Go online to http://exifdata.com/

 

Some people are likely unaware that their cellphone or digital camera captures Geotag location information every time they take a picture. Geotagging a photo seems harmless enough right? Wrong!

The geotag, which doesn't appear in the actual image, but is none the less part of the picture's 'meta data', can be viewed and extracted. If criminals extract the location information from the picture you posted on an online sale or auction site, then they now know the exact GPS location of the item in the picture you snapped. If the item is of high value, then they might just come and steal it.

The geolocation data for most images is stored within the image file in a format know as EXchangeable Image file Format (EXIF). The EXIF format has placeholders for GPS information that often gets recorded as you take a photo with your smartphone. The location data can be extracted by EXIF viewer apps such as the EXIF Viewer Firefox Add-on or via an app such as EXIF Wizard for the iPhone, or Jpeg EXIF Viewer for Android

You might consider downloading one of the above applications to see if your pictures have geotags embedded in them.