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Political Factoid
The so-called "smartphones" (Android, BlackBerry, iPhones, etc.) usually include a camera. Also, they often include a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) chip so that they know precisely when and where each picture is taken.
The GPS information is automatically embedded in each photo you take.
When you upload these pictures to a social networking or photosharing website (e.g., Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums) -- or when you e-mail them to "friends" (who may post the pictures on Google or Facebook) -- this high-tech, precise location information is included.
While some websites such as Google and Apple may ask you first for permission to share that information with their millions of users, all that has to happen is for you to just once click OK (whether intentionally or not) and they will make the information available to every continent of the world.
In addition, there are hundreds of scavenger websites around the world constantly crawling the web in search of photos -- which they then copy (steal) and post on their own sites.
Predators love this. They just look for cute photos and then download the exact location (within feet) of where the photo was taken.
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Isn't it amazing how much safer technology and the wealthy entrepreneurs are making the world.
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