location tagging on smartphones

[BobsArmory]

So I uploaded a few photos to face book and I see that you can see the exact location where I took them. Very disturbing! Anyone know how I can prevent this from happening?

 

[Quattro Pete]

Somewhere in your phone's camera settings there should be an option for geo-tagging. This feature stores geographical coordinates for every image. Turn this feature off.

 

[Quattro Pete]

OH, and if you want to remove the geo-tagging info from existing photos, then you can use a utility to strip EXIF info from image files. FastStone Photo Resizer is one that comes to mind, but there are many others... Of course you need to perform this action before you upload the files to FB.

 

[Volvo_ST1]

You can strip all meta data, including geotags, when saving the image in Photoshop. Simply "Save for Web" instead of "Save As" or "Save."

 

[eljefino]

My sources say facebook strips EXIF data. Are you uploading through your phone or some similar app? Maybe your facebook privacy settings need a look through. (They mess with them in favor of less privacy 1x every 6 months or so.)

 

[BobsArmory]

I'll look into that eljefino

 

[Volvo_ST1]

In Photobucket you have the option of stripping geotags via Privacy Options under UPLOAD OPTIONS. As eljefino said, Facebook has probably a similar feature.

 

[OilEnthusiast]

BobsArmory,
You need to disable geotagging of your phone, look this Youtube video for further details. There is another smart way -- delete all photographic metadata with tools like this EXIF remover before uploading photos to Facebook/Twitter/etc. This is better because digital photos can contain much more sensitive information, not only geotags.