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So when Milliron said "enough with the cat pictures", maybe he was just worried about your privacy
February 12, 2018, 02:38 PM
sjtillSo when Milliron said "enough with the cat pictures", maybe he was just worried about your privacy
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The world is getting more creepy by the minute. Do you know where your cat is? Chances are, the Internet does. People:
IKnowWhereYourCatLives.com is a website masterminded and programmed by Professor Owen Mundy of Florida State University. According to THV11, Mundy says his goal is to warn people about posting pictures that give away their personal GPS coordinates.
“It worked great. It went viral immediately,” said Mundy of the site, which tracks over 7 million cats globally. It even finds them right inside their homes, just based on the hashtag “cats” and data, i.e. the aforementioned GPS coordinates attached to photos people post to social media. Mundy says these cat owners are unaware of how much they’re revealing about their private lives.
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Mundy’s goal with the site is to influence people to protect their privacy, and he thinks that these cat photos are a way to help folks understand just how much information they’re unwittingly exposing about themselves. He notes that if the internet is currently in a “Wild West” stage of development, as it expands, companies may surreptitiously benefit financially from your personal data.
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February 12, 2018, 03:53 PM
just1tym
Regards, Will G.
February 12, 2018, 04:33 PM
soflaacGood stuff.
Happy that our cat is camera shy. Rescued feral (was just a wee lass when I found her).
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tatortoddI don't think any burglars are properly trained for Splash's assassination attempts on the stairs
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DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. February 12, 2018, 05:04 PM
Sig2340No, he was just tired of the cat pictures.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government."
Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
February 12, 2018, 05:37 PM
gearhoundsUnless you take appropriate steps to block location information (almost nobody does) it is frighteningly easy to gps backtrack. Any guns I show off to my internet buddies get taken at the station and no home pics show them or my cruiser.
“Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown February 12, 2018, 05:46 PM
lkdr1989So you're saying don't put a Fitbit on your cat and take a picture of it?
...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV
"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV February 12, 2018, 09:58 PM
flashguyMy camera (a DSLR) does not have an integral GPS, and I don't have a smart phone. I do add GPS information to many of my photos by using a separate GPS logger and merging software, but I'm in control of which pictures get location data.
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Texan by choice, not accident of birth February 13, 2018, 10:02 AM
Fla. JimYepper these smart phones give the GPS location of the shot. New info for me but then I don't have a smart phone. Just discovered this the other day when perusing the file settings from a members pic. Showed the location which was on a road and with google you can go right there!
February 13, 2018, 10:35 AM
just1tymMy online photo host where I upload my photos for web use has an option to prevent any of this info from the photo. I've enabled it and disabled this option in the past for web display.
You can also disable the geotagging info on an iPhone also following these steps..
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Disable GEOtagging link
Regards, Will G.
February 13, 2018, 11:04 AM
egregoreThe OP of that thread has not been seen here in some time.
"The Almighty, He put some livin' things on this earth so a man can eat." - Festus Haggen, Gunsmoke February 13, 2018, 11:33 AM
RAMIUSquote:
Originally posted by egregore:
The OP of that thread has not been seen here in some time.
Did all the cat pictures scare him off?
February 13, 2018, 11:43 AM
2Adefenderquote:
Originally posted by RAMIUS:
quote:
Originally posted by egregore:
The OP of that thread has not been seen here in some time.
Did all the cat pictures scare him off?
He dropped off the map after the 2016 election...
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