A beautiful picture it is. Can you guess where the picture was taken? Probably not, but even if it was an educated guess the picture location can be almost any were in the world with an appropriate climate to sustain such flora. Ok so it’s not the Sahara desert but the world is big place. With the proliferation of mobile devices, taking a photo is no longer a question of how beautiful it is, but it’s becoming a security question to. Did you know that the above photo has embedded GeoTagg information in it? That means with the appropriate software you can locate exactly where the picture was taking. The software that can reveal the such information is abundant on the internet, and a lot of it is free. You can try findpiclocation.com at :- https://findpiclocation.com/ Go ahead clip the picture above and see if you can find where it was taken.
The GPS technology that embeds such information in your photos is no longer confined to your mobile phones, but its starting find its way to modern Digital SLR and normal digital cameras. Are you in shock yet? If not let me ask you this, when was the last time you posted a personal photo, or a picture of your children on a social network like Facebook? Was the picture taken with your mobile phone? If it was taken by your mobile was GeoTagging turned on or off? Don’t get panicky and throw your mobile phone out yet. The GPS feature can be turned off in your phone and you can setup your camera software not to save the GPS information in your pictures.
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