ANY phone or camera with GPS puts a 'geotag' on EVERY photo.
The photo I took of my cat and sent to friends tells everyone my home address. Good thing none of my clients wants me dead.
This is because it is COOL to mix GPS information and photo information. NO ONE thought of how DANGEROUS it is to mix photo information and GPS information.
Even high school computer programmers can find the actual location of ANY geotagged photo. It is fairly easy to write a computer program to troll the internet and find people on vacation and the location of their home. This is because the location of where every photo was taken is encoded into every photo. (If the device taking the photo has GPS.)
IT IS BEYOND STUPID.
Programmers, most of whom do not understand people very well, are not even telling you that people on the internet can find out your home address from your posted photos. Luckily, I think that low resolution uploads, like to Facebook, do not keep the geotag information.
But if you are posting photos on your website, you may be giving the viewers the exact location of where you took EVERY photo.
To turn off geotag can be difficult. I suggest you put in the name of your device followed by 'remove geotag' in Google. It worked for me.
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