EXIF In Digital Photos Can Reveal Your Location

[dgridley]

(CNN) -- Skim through the photos on Flickr or Photobucket, and you'll find pictures of cats pawing at living-room sofas, children playing in backyards and mothers gardening at home.

Dig a little deeper, and you can unearth the exact locations of many of those homes, embedded in data within the pictures.

more: Digital photos can reveal your location, raise privacy fears - CNN.com

Bet that's something alot of people posting pics online never thought of..

[Blue Baboon]

That's a scary thought that people can find this stuff and a good thing to know.

"Users who don't want their photos tagged with GPS data can either disable the option on their cameras or run the images through software, such as Photoshop, that can remove the EXIF."

[j10asen]

Idownloaded this program
Exif Reader Freeware - free software download and software review - view EXIF data in images from SnapFiles
and read the EXIF file from my computer
and this is what I get

I do not see a thing in here that is threatening. If someone could point out the what to llok for I would like to know.
I also downloaded a photo that I uploaded to Photobucket .com and ths above program errored out when trying to read the EXIF file
Filename : beach.jpg
JFIF_APP1 : Exif
Main Information
Make : Canon
Model : Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
Orientation : left-hand side
XResolution : 180/1
YResolution : 180/1
ResolutionUnit : Inch
DateTime : 2010:10:02 12:57:50
YCbCrPositioning : centered
ExifInfoOffset : 196
Sub Information
ExposureTime : 1/1000Sec
FNumber : F3.2
ISOSpeedRatings : 80
ExifVersion : 0220
DateTimeOriginal : 2010:10:02 12:57:50
DateTimeDigitized : 2010:10:02 12:57:50
ComponentConfiguration : YCbCr
ShutterSpeedValue : 1/1002Sec
ApertureValue : F3.2
ExposureBiasValue : EV0.0
Flash : Not fired(Compulsory)
FocalLength : 6.84(mm)
MakerNote : Canon Format : 964Bytes (Offset:626)
UserComment :
FlashPixVersion : 0100
ColorSpace : sRGB
ExifImageWidth : 2816
ExifImageHeight : 2112
ExifInteroperabilityOffset : 1854
FocalPlaneXResolution : 2816000/241
FocalPlaneYResolution : 2112000/181
FocalPlaneResolutionUnit : Meter
FileSource : DSC
CustomRendered : Normal process
ExposureMode : Auto
WhiteBalance : Auto
DigitalZoomRatio : 3648/3648
SceneCaptureType : Standard
Vendor Original Information
MacroMode : Off
Self-timer : Off
Quality : Fine
FlashMode : Off
Drive Mode : Single-frame
Focus Mode : Single
ImageSize : M1
Easy shooting mode : Full auto
Digital Zoom : Off
Contrast : Normal
Saturation : Normal
Sharpness : Normal
CCD Sensitivity : Unknown (14)
MeteringMode : Evaluative
FocusType : Auto
ExposureProgram : Easy shooting
Focal length of lens : 5-100(mm)
Long Shutter Mode : Off
Unknown (0001)3,46 : 005C 0002 0000 0003 0000 0000 0000 0004 FFFF FFFF 0005 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 000E 0003 0001 0000 0000 FFFF FFFF 2710 01F4 0064 006B 00CB FFFF 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 0000 0E40 0E40 0000 FFFF FFFF 0000 7FFF 7FFF FFFF FFFF
Unknown (0002)3,4 : 2,684,247,185
Unknown (0003)3,4 : 0,0,0,0
White Balance : Auto
Sequence number(Continuous mode) : 0
Flash bias : 0 EV
Unknown (0004)3,33 : 0042 0000 0095 0000 006B 013F 0000 0000 0000 0000 0008 0008 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 FFFF FFFF FFFF 0000 0000 0000
Image type : IMG:PowerShotSX10ISJPEG
Firmware version : FirmwareVersion00.00
Image Number : 1001972
Owner name :
Unknown (0010)4,1 : 38207488
Unknown (0013)3,4 : 0,159,0,119
Unknown (0016)4,1 : 0
Unknown (0018)1,256 : 0
Unknown (0019)3,1 : 1
Unknown (001A)3,1 : 0
Unknown (001D)3,16 : 32,1,0,2,2,2,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
Unknown (001F)3,69 : 138,1,0,4,8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
Unknown (0023)4,2 : 8,0
Unknown (0027)3,5 : 10,0,0,0,9
Unknown (00D0)4,1 : 0
ExifR98
ExifR : R98
Version : 0100
Unknown (4097) : 2816
Unknown (4098) : 2112
Thumbnail Information
Compression : OLDJPEG
XResolution : 180/1
YResolution : 180/1
ResolutionUnit : Inch
JPEGInterchangeFormat : 2026
JPEGInterchangeFormatLength : 10574

[dgridley]

Here's more on the subject..

What Your Digital Photos Reveal About You - PCWorld