EXIF data... Feds Tracking Cellphone Pics?

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  1. #1 canadabud, Mar 10, 2012
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    Am new here and felt like a complete dumbass so I thought I'd share. I've been taking pictures of my stash and sending it to my friends to show off and one of them pinpointed almost the exact location where I took the picture on Google maps.

    Turns out it's information iPhone stored in exif data called geotagging..

    For seasoned tokers it's probably old news, but for inexperienced ones it may be useful information, apparently feds use this for drug busts.

    I checked some pics on the site and many of them don't hide exif data, in this thread I found some traces (eventhough it wasn't the location I got the camera model and date of the photograph).

    tl;dr

    disable location services on your iPhone
     
  2. #2 thelizardkin, Mar 10, 2012
    Unless you have several pounds I would not worry to much the feds have better things to do then bust some guy with an 1/8th
     
  3. #3 TheDankDude, Mar 10, 2012
    Yup, this has actually been going on for awhile. Unless your taking pictures of pounds upon pounds of weed or nukes-in-progress or some sort of illegal underground midget wrestling league, you should be ok. But just dont take pictures with your phone, get a camera.
     
  4. #4 canadabud, Mar 10, 2012
    especially if you're in Canada :)

    I was surprised I didn't know this though, I'm in IT and never heard of this thing in the past. Was wondering if I'm the only one who's so uninformed
     
  5. #5 Spaced, Mar 10, 2012

    Uh oh. You never saw me here.

    :hide:
     
  6. #6 Buddha_Man, Mar 11, 2012

    do they really? :rolleyes:
     
  7. #7 canadabud, Mar 11, 2012
    i see what you did there :smoke:
     
  8. #8 Buddha_Man, Mar 11, 2012

    aw yeah
     
  9. #9 Blazed Bacon, Mar 11, 2012
    Just turn location services off for the camera and you can still use other location functions.
     
  10. #10 Makizushi, Mar 11, 2012
    this is one the reasons i say

    fuck apple.
     
  11. #11 Madmike420, Mar 11, 2012

    Note to self delete pics folder....
     
  12. #12 Skunky Monkey, Mar 11, 2012
    It's rippers you should worry about, unless your growing a shit load of weed, then yes that is a problem.
     
  13. #13 Blazed Bacon, Mar 11, 2012

    Lol, are you aware that Android does this too? It's easy to turn off and iOS gives the option when you set it up.
     
  14. #14 Doadies, Mar 11, 2012
    "i'm selling dope, straight off the iphone!"
     
  15. #15 canadabud, Mar 11, 2012
    true.. the only difference I noticed when switching to Android is that they REALLY drill it down when you first turn on the phone. Although I heard iPhone started emphasizing the risks more also.

    I lol'd at the "sell dope straight from my iPhone"
     
  16. #16 Ratio, Mar 11, 2012
    i email any pic i put on the internet to myself then screenshot it before i upload it
     
  17. #17 420mexican, Mar 11, 2012
    [quote name='"TheDankDude"']Yup, this has actually been going on for awhile. Unless your taking pictures of... or some sort of illegal underground midget wrestling league, you should be ok...[/quote]

    Uh oh! Im in trouble.
     
  18. #18 Purple Pills, Mar 11, 2012
    Easy Exif Delete is a program I use on my PC. There might be an app for that. If I wasn't so lazy I would check the market/appstore and tell you. Heard about these type of watermarks along time ago when Microsoft got in trouble for using photo software in Windows that belonged to another company.
     

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