By WJTV
If you’ve ever taken a picture with your smart phone you might want to pay attention. With the snap of the camera and the click of a button, your photo is now online for the entire world to see.
What exactly are you showing everyone when you post a photo? You may be very surprised.
“If your smart phone is equipped with a GPS chip on it, then it constantly updates its information it gets from the satellite. Your phone can be tracked to its exact GPS location, along with any photo that you post.” Dr. Natarajan Meghanathan shows just how easy it is to pinpoint where a photo was taken. “This is a photo that was taken from a smart phone that has a GPS labeled, so what happens all the latitude and longitude, GPS information gets embedded in this photo a metadata,” says Dr. Meg.
One photo can hold a large amount of information which is called metadata, it can show what the model of your phone is, the time and date the picture was taken, if the flash was used and your location.
“If this photo has that information about the longitude and latitude, it can pull out and say this photo was taken at JSU,” says Dr. Meg.
Just a simple download and click, we were able to find out that photo was taken at the John A. Peoples building on Jackson State’s campus.
“We just want parents to know that that technology is out there those photographs, digital photographs, contain information – where they can get where that location is,” says Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.
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