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How your location can be discovered from a photo you post on Facebook
Most digital cameras record the GPS coordinates of a photo you take in the EXIF metadata. This means that anyone you share a photo with can learn exactly where (and when) the photo was taken. In addition, there are other ways in which you can be located from photos you…
Social Media and Adoptive Family Birth Mother Contact (Video)
How to cope with unexpected birth mother contact Susan Ogden from Adoptions Together describes how her agency developed their response to help adoptive families and birth families navigate their relationships online, and the lessons that she and her agency have learned one family at a time. The presentation was given as…
How to Choose an Email Marketing Service for your Small Business
[clear]What you need to consider and the criteria you should use for choosing an email marketing service for your small business. Over the last few months I've been trying out a range of Email Marketing Services on behalf of my small business clients. In the course of doing it became clear…
Facebook automatically strips location information from photos – but that may change
Currently Facebook strips out EXIF data that contains location information in photos posted on Facebook, providing a degree of protection for adoptive families who post photos but need to guard their location. This feature has not pleased some groups of professional photographers who argue that the feature prevents them from…
How to remove your location data before sharing photos
The problem is you can't rely on social media to automatically remove location data from photos you post online. Currently Facebook automatically strips out the EXIF information (that contains location coordinates) from uploaded photos. They do this for privacy reasons. They also strip out the IPTC information that professional photographers…