{"id":20343,"date":"2013-08-16T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T15:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=20343"},"modified":"2013-08-16T10:47:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T15:47:58","slug":"why-its-your-fault-a-quick-rant-about-digital-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/why-its-your-fault-a-quick-rant-about-digital-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It’s Your Fault: A Quick Rant About Digital Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is quite a week for the tinfoil hat brigade. I’ve been seeing two particular stories over and over in my social network feed and I feel compelled to address them.<\/p>\n
Let’s talk about the rant about social network and photos first. I’m not going to link to it, because I don’t want to see this idiot getting any traffic from me. Here are the basics: In case you weren’t aware, your smartphone tags photos by location. The rant warns you that people may track your kids that way via social networking.<\/p>\n
There are so many things wrong with this. The most basic is that geotagging photos is nothing new (indeed, the rant is from 2010), and social network sites actually strip that data out of the photo when uploading. Mind you, it’s easy to track people via social networking, but that has more to do with oversharing than evil tech in your phone.<\/p>\n