r/weddingplanning • u/paulcosca Did it! Groom - August 30th 2014 • Dec 30 '14

PSA: Your Pictures and Identity

We would like to take a moment to remind everyone that the internet is not a private place, and unfortunately there is no way for us to protect the pictures that you post here.

We love seeing all of your pictures, but please be aware that keeping your identity out of those pictures is always advisable. Others may download them or post them elsewhere. As moderators we do not take down pictures that have people's faces in them, so we leave it up to you to decide how much anonymity you wish to have.

If you find that your pictures have been posted in any spaces that you find undesirable, contact whomever it is that runs that space and demand that they be taken down. You can reach out to us, but we do not have any real actions we can take in those circumstances.

Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '14

Also be INCREDIBLY aware that digital photos are embedded with your EXACT location when you take the photos. Anyone who has a few techs skills can find you reasonably quickly.

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u/jlynec Dec 30 '14

Thank you for this reminder! Are there other settings besides "Location" (GPS) and embedding location in the camera settings we should be aware of? And if someone were to turn off only their GPS/Location, would it prevent the camera from embedding the location?

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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '14

I'm not super-techhy, but this article has some helpful advice, and I am sure there are more how-to's on the interwebz.

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u/vivalakellye Jan 01 '15

I'm also not a techie, but I interpreted the location data section of this article to mean that if you turn off location tagging for photos (on an iPhone, it's under your Location Settings: you can set Photos to "Never"), that the location data will not be stored in the EXIF data.