Friends,
This isn’t daffodil-related, but it’s something anyone who posts photos online, whether to Daffnet or a Facebook page, needs to be aware of. Please click on the link below to see how the “bad guys” can track where you live, or where you are, just from your photo. If someone is visiting your show/country, etc., don’t post photos showing them having a great time at Wisley, for instance, until they get back home. There’s no point letting the “bad guys” know the house is empty and the coast is clear to go in and steal whatever they want. If your phone has GPS tracking, see if you can turn it off for people-photos, but please let it on if you’re taking daffodil photos. Ben can use the information to make note of where the daffodils are growing. Just be aware…
Mary Lou
YOU ALL NEED TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY………
We all love our cell phones but we want to use them wisely and carefully.
If you take pictures with your cell or Smartphone and post them online, you may be providing others with more information than you want to share. You may already know that technology exists that allows the exact location of any photo to be pinpointed—including those taken in your home. If you hadn’t really thought about it one way or another, you might want to check out the attached video for what you can do about it.
If you have children or grandchildren you especially need to watch this:
Here’s a similar caveat. There have been cases where a car was stolen, the C
car’s GPS was directed to go “home”, and the home was also robbed, the robber knowing that it was unlikely that anyone was at home.
If you steal my car and tell my GPS to go home, you’ll land a few doors away. I won’t say in which direction.
Also, whitepages.com has an expanded feature of Google Earth’s address finding feature which makes it even harder to hide where you live.
Sent from my iPad
My nephew who is the IT man for Boeing in Seattle WA, says he uses
http://www.digitalconfidence.com/BatchPurifier.html
to turn off that feature in his smart phone.
Phyllis Hess