Photo safety details.

[Blr243]

A few yrs back I thing it was dj that warned me of this. When we post a pic of a boar we just shot other members can click on the pics and learn the location therefore finding out our secret hunting spots. Is there a setting we can turn off to protect ourselves from this slightly invasive curiosity?

[bladeracer]

A few yrs back I thing it was dj that warned me of this. When we post a pic of a boar we just shot other members can click on the pics and learn the location therefore finding out our secret hunting spots. Is there a setting we can turn off to protect ourselves from this slightly invasive curiosity?

In your phone (or camera) switch off the location recording.

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I didn't think that data was retained once you edit a photo?
I don't know about on a phone, but on the computer if you right click the photo and click properties, go to details, you can click "Remove Properties and Personal Information" from the photo before you post it. It brings up a window asking you what properties you want to remove, and also allows you retain the original complete photo. I don't do anything with pics on a phone, I dump them to the computer before I play with them.

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[Wapiti]

Would people be so low as to really try that sort of thing?
They still don't have permission, and you'd have to be really dumb to drive all the way out into pig (or whatever) country without it. Especially as anyone knows the areas feral pigs etc are anyway. Poachers tend to move around a bit, trying to keep ahead of anyone who might bust them anyway.

[Die Judicii]

Yeah Mate, its called “MetaData”. Do what Blade suggested and you should be right. And Wapati, crims can use it when people put up a pic of something advertised for sale.

[mchughcb]

Would people be so low as to really try that sort of thing?
They still don't have permission, and you'd have to be really dumb to drive all the way out into pig (or whatever) country without it. Especially as anyone knows the areas feral pigs etc are anyway. Poachers tend to move around a bit, trying to keep ahead of anyone who might bust them anyway.

Oh yes they would. I've had a particular person pleasuring themselves because of the time on the a photo trying to implicate something that wasn't. Some people are doomed to permanently upset about something.

[Wapiti]

Yeah Mate, its called “MetaData”. Do what Blade suggested and you should be right. And Wapati, crims can use it when people put up a pic of something advertised for sale.

Yeah, true. Doesn't stop people from placing ads that can have the wrong people inquiring though.
Particularly for someone selling gun related stuff, not just firearms.
The last time I advertised anything anywhere was the old paper Trading Post, in 1996. Sold the guns I was going to have to hand in when the deadline came up, which was completely legal.

Actually, I reckon the worst risk would be to be a member of a forum.
I'm going to have a big think about that one.

[bladeracer]

Yeah, true. Doesn't stop people from placing ads that can have the wrong people inquiring though.
Particularly for someone selling gun related stuff, not just firearms.
The last time I advertised anything anywhere was the old paper Trading Post, in 1996. Sold the guns I was going to have to hand in when the deadline came up, which was completely legal.

Actually, I reckon the worst risk would be to be a member of a forum.
I'm going to have a big think about that one.

Facebook is a bigger risk I think. On a forum there is very little background info about you, even if you share as much as I do, and that information can stretch back over many years, all public for anybody to use as they see fit. On Facebook you have photos of other subjects. Might include family, friends, vehicles, places you go regularly, lots of things that can be potentially used to track you down. Even an old school photo that can be identified and used to contact people you might have known decades before that might know something useful about you. And you have "Friends" listed, with similar information that can be tracked down to lead back to you. A very common FB scam is to receive a "Friend Request" from somebody you are already "Friends" with, or a message "I've lost my phone, send me your phone number again", stuff like that. These come from somebody who has stolen everything off somebody's page, duplicated their page so it looks _identical_ to your friend's page, and they're mining information out of all of that person's "friends" until somebody gives them the keys to access their accounts. Your real friends will have your phone number or email and can check with you that the friend request is genuine, your FB friends probably don't have that info so your only means of contact is via their FB profile, which is now being run by a hacker, so not much you can do to warn them. I have messaged friends of an FB friend that I thought might be in actual contact with the person to warn them that their account has been duplicated.

I share a lot of info so I've had messages asking me if I'm Bladeracer from Enoughgun, and before that, from Fireblades.org, I still get occasional messages via Fireblades asking me about bike stuff. I'm not hiding from anybody, but I don't recommend everybody be like me. There are good reasons to be a little circumspect about who you invite into your life.