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A facebook friend recently posted this video on her Wall.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vARzvWxwY&

The news piece does actually inform viewers of a real threat to safety that comes with geo-tagging photos that you upload online. But the exaggerated sense of danger that they portray is, IMO, uncalled for.  

I buy and sell a lot on craigslist, and I like posting photos of my family online, and so I am extra careful when it comes to giving out PII in information that I put out on the Internet. However I do like to geo-tag my photos so that I can find photos by the place I clicked them in. So I turn off Location Services on my iPhone whenever click a photo that I plan on posting online. Alternately, I email the photo to myself and edit the EXIF information manually (using Windows Explorer) to clear out the location data before I post the images online. 

This information is not exactly news to me, but if you were part of the blissfully unaware masses, watch the video till the end to see how to prevent geo-tagging your photos.

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