A new program called creepy might convince you to stop geotagging your photos.
Type in a username from Flickr or Twitter and it will map out when and where all the user’s photos were taken.
It also works with the following photo hosting sites by pulling EXIF data:
- flickr – information retrieved from API
- twitpic.com – information retrieved from API and photo exif tags
- yfrog.com – information retrieved from photo exif tags
- img.ly – information retrieved from photo exif tags
- plixi.com – information retrieved from photo exif tags
- twitrpix.com – information retrieved from photo exif tags
- foleext.com – information retrieved from photo exif tags
- shozu.com – information retrieved from photo exif tags
- pickhur.com – information retrieved from photo exif tags
- moby.to – information retrieved from API and photo exif tags
- twitsnaps.com – information retrieved from photo exif tags
- twitgoo.com – information retrieved from photo exif tags
Even more creepy is that you can export all the data to .csv format and save it….like a stalker…or a good marketer scouring info on a client’s lifestyle habits, I guess.
Some people like geotagging, and we use it in conjunction with Google Maps to digitally “scout” locations before we travel there. But we’re not too fond of making it easier for you to come kill us or wreck our photo shoot minutes after we post a behind the scenes shot on Twitter.
You can avoid geotagging altogether by turning it off in your apps and mobile devices, or by using a scrubbing software like Geotag Security.