phones and photos

DillyDallyingAround · Veteran Member

phones and photos

Happywanderer · The Master

B......... H......... Is no where safe any more.

Kantiki · Senior Member

I dont usually do this but I just posted that link to Facebook. All my children and lots of their freinds have these phones and we share photos around via facebook. Hope they check the phone settings so there are no problems such as those listed. Thanks for the warning.

Firefly · Guru

That really is rather disturbing. I checked mine and the GPS on my camera is disabled thank goodness.

milo · Guru

very scary, thanks for posting that.. sometimes tech can be bad.

Beth54 · Guru

I posted it to facebook too. My privacy settings are set carefully on facebook. My son is extra careful with any photo's of my grand-daughter. If any of us post photo's of the kids, we don't put their names on them, and their birth date is never revealed. But I don't know if he knows about this GPS stuff.

I don't befriend anyone I don't know on facebook, unlike the teens of today, who seem to befriend anyone and everyone.

Cruising Granny · Guru

For every thousand really nice, genuine people out there, there is one a/hole who preys on the innocent, whether they be young or old.
Technology is wonder for communication, but it can also be invasive in the wrong hands.
Protect yourself as much as you can.
I've been receiving emails allegedly from an email contact, but apparently they come from someone who has hacked his email address and his address book. We don't know how to fix it other than to change emails addresses again. Mongrels!

blaze · Guru

Cruising Granny wrote:
For every thousand really nice, genuine people out there, there is one a/hole who preys on the innocent, whether they be young or old.
Technology is wonder for communication, but it can also be invasive in the wrong hands.
Protect yourself as much as you can.
I've been receiving emails allegedly from an email contact, but apparently they come from someone who has hacked his email address and his address book. We don't know how to fix it other than to change emails addresses again. Mongrels!

Hi CG

that sounds very much like a virus,advice would be to run a good virus checker

cheers

blaze

Loffty · Senior Member

Heya. Just change ya password. Stops the intrusion, and yes virus check ya 'puter.

Works for me. Otherwise technoligy is good, imagine forum with snail mail, hey. :)

pws25 · Senior Member

Hi CG,yer, as Lofty said, change ya password, [ msn ? ] my contact list was 'hijacked' an everybody was gettin mail ,supposedly, from me! the worst thing was it was advertisin Viagara!! lol, then i started gettin mail from my friends, [ supposedly ] I googled it & it is very common!! Since i changed my p/word, it has stopped, fingers crossed!!!

GrumpyOne · Senior Member

Hi Guys N Gals,

The process is called GeoCaching and most phones have a setting in the tools that allows you to turn this on and off, the IPhone has this under settings.

But as previously stated make sure you have your privacy settings set up in facebook etc so that only you and your intended viewers have access to your personal pics...

Hoo Roo Happy Days

Grumpster