GeoTags a means to track media sent via your mobile!
Snap happy senders beware the images you forward to friends are traceable and provide others with information on your location.
Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as photographs, video, websites, or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata.
Location markers have legitimate applications to navigation services and where tracking an individual will assist criminal investigation but ambiguous conations also apply.
Smart phones enable geotagging in most cases as an automatic preference so every picture you post puts your privacy at risk. Take advantage of technology crafty criminals and machiavellian mobile menacers can create a dossier on your movements and monitor you from a distance.
With the ease of exchange that information sourced and generated online now provides, identity theft and privacy violation prompts authorities to warn social networkers to reassess the content they post.
Turning off the location service on your mobile can help curb the corruption but asking the question should my personal life be made public is perhaps a better measure of prevention.
