USA Today: Location services pose huge security risks
Monday, August 30th, 2010USA Today’s CyberSpeak columnist Kim Komando focuses on the issue of privacy and location-tracking services in an article. She explains the problems and she also gives tips on how to protect your privacy.
Geotagging adds GPS coordinates to your online posts or photos. You may be exposing this information without even knowing it. Geotagging is particularly popular with photos; many smartphones automatically geotag photos. [...]
Unless you have a stalker, these [location-based social-networking] services aren’t particularly dangerous on their own. You need to think about the layers of information you leave online. As you use more services, it’s easier for criminals to track you.
Let’s say you post a photo of your new house to a photo site. The photo is geotagged. You’ve linked your photo account to Facebook. And you use Foursquare or Twitter on the go; updates are sent to your Facebook account. Read more »

