I just love the way that the media sensationalizes everything on the internet as a threat! Yeah someone can see that a picture was taken of the kid at the park... before this amazing technology couldn't the person had just gone to the park and seen all the kids that play there?

Kind of reminds me when there was all the hoopla about entering yor credit card number on the internet... oh my that's way to scary, let me call the motel instead and give my credit card info to some dimwit I don't know over the phone.

Got to kind of agree with you there SST, to an extent.  Yes there is a lot of unjustified fear of any new technology... like the credit card situation you mentioned.  Yes, people have been able to find little kids (or anyone for that matter) just by hanging out at schools, parks, etc, but if a weirdo was attempting to locate the child of a certian family, this would provide a means to do that.

As with any situation in life, you can't just stop going places or using certain technology, you just need to make sure you exercise a reasonble amount of caution and use some common sense.

Makes me glad I'm too dumb for a smart phone.

Dont worry me to much.The "bad guys" know where to find me,they just choose not to for some strange reason..

I used to worry about someone hacking into my bank accounts. That I saw my balance and thought..... IF someone did hack into them they would feel sorry for me and might make a deposit for me !!!!!!

I know the feeling Rob. I could just hear the thief who steels my card cussing when the card is declined for a $25 purchase!!!

Thanks for the heads up Rev !!! There are a lot of people out there who have no clue as to how exposed they truly are.Big brother loves this sort of tech,too bad such things often fall into the wrong hands,which makes me wonder why the phones do not come with some sort of warning?

If they did, that would tend to scare some away from purchasing. Can't have that. Ignorance is bliss, and some people love it. Sure, I have a cell, and I carry it with me for PHONE calls. Mainly for emergency use. I hate the dang things.

I am not a geek but do have a share of tech tools. I hate the built-in obsoletetion of the cell phone by the service providers. The battery was failing in the cellphone. New is $50.00. I can get a new phone (again) free but I need to purchase 2 services to use the phone. We now have more "Units" of rollover use than we could use in a month as all calls are free. We don't text or check mail with the phone (voice is faster than the thumbs) so we don't need all of the "Services" in the new phone. If you use the new phone you need to buy the service that we wouldn't use??? WE JUST WANT A CELLPHONE AND A CELLPHONE SERVICE. ! ! ! Bought a new battery.

Makes me glad I don't have young children. Or a "Smartphone". We all know big brother's watching, but so apparently is his pedophiliac evil twin. Scary.

Here are instructions for disabling geotagging in various smartphones. You can also remove properties from pictures to get rid of the GPS data. (It's also possible to remove properties from videos but GPS data is usually not embedded in them anyway).

Good info Legmo - thanks for posting it.