Originally Posted by
Jazmac Its not that simple. No one here is afraid of "the grid". But no one wants to take that libertarian position when it comes to protection of family. This is one of those issues where people with someone to protect. You may not care about things like that where your family is concerned. but many parents are. Some might opt to be a little more aware of the technology and take care of who may or may not be watching. I would hate it to have a web site track my child down because I posted pictures of their birthday party on the net.
I wasn't implying my situation is somehow universal.
Originally Posted by
mase123987 Most security experts will tell you that you shouldn't post pictures of anything on a social site until after the event. For example - posting pictures after you are back from vacation. This way the information is less important.
Let's also remember that a big reason for having location on pictures is for sorting purposes. Say you are on a European vacation, traveling from country to country and take 400 pictures. By using location, a program can sort the pictures by your different stops. That would be extremely useful to a lot people.
I didn't watch the video so I don't know if they covered this, but this tech is also in a lot of regular cameras for the reason I stated above.
For the most part I take pics with a camera and post them after the fact. I occasionally "check in" with a picture, but the point of the check-in is to tell people where I am and what I'm doing, so the fact that the picture EXIF data happens to give location info is kind of mute; I'm already sharing that.