A Step-By-Step Guide for Protecting Your Online Photos from Predators
On today's show you met Lakilia, a woman who revealed how her Facebook pictures were stolen and used in an escort ad. Here to explain how scams like this occur was the Editor-in-Chief of Mashable.com, who shared his best advice for keeping your online photos safe.
Lance provides a step-by-step guide for protecting yourself from online photo dangers:
How to Disable Geotagging:
Geotagging adds location data to, among other things, all of your photos. Here's how to turn it off on your iPhone:
To turn off:
1) Find "Settings" on your iPhone
2) Look for "Location Services"
3) Turn off globally or turn off by app
Note: your camera is in there, where you can turn off.
How to Add Watermarks to Photos:
In Google's Picasa (a free, downloadable Windows app) you can add a watermark or text to pictures before posting them.
1) First, open the photo in Picasa.
2) Select the File menu and "Export to Picture Folder..."
3) In the dialogue box, check the box next to "Add watermark" and type in what you'd like the watermark to say in the text box below.
Those words will appear on top of your photos.
Note: if you use Photoshop, you can achieve the same effect by using the text tool and apply text to your images before exporting them.
How to Add McAfee Social Protection App to Your Facebook Account:
1) Open Facebook in Windows or on your Mac
2) Use this link to find the McAfee app: Apps.Facebook.com/SocialProtection
3) Follow the installation instructions on the page (Internet Explorer and Firefox only, for now).
For more tips on online safety, visit Mashable.com. To ask Lance a question or learn more, follow him on Twitter: @LanceUlanoff.
Comments
what wasn't said here though, and which i feel would have reached more of the parents, who need to know this for their kids who have facebook accounts and other social media accounts(twitter, hi5, youtube, instagram, etc., etc...) was the story the lady shared on the program re: geotagging...and something she had been made aware of on anderson's show, was how predators can track their habits(days and time of day) and locations to find patterns in their routines to then find their kids or them for malicious intent criminal acts!!!! i myself have never used geo track because even apps like find my phone requesting location tracking i've always disengaged because if i want you to know where i'm at in a pic...i'll tell you myself no need fro someone out in cyber space to track me yet...when i start getting lost in life; that's when someone can turn my gps identification systems on for me (since i will probably have forgotten that too lol) my daughter though i don't think heeds my warnings but she will have to learn either from experiences(i pray not) or watching your show on her own to see....mom is not just paranoid it's real as we all can see(but, only if we are willing to open our eyes that is.)
thank you for your time, whomever read or replies to this on anderson's staff or to you anderson if you do your own reading and dirty work* tee hee...
sincerely,
kristin in santa monica
p.s. president obama is here today!!!!!
(*dirty as in getting your hands dirty working a job not dirty as in minded or sexually dirty just clarifying thanx)
Excellent advice on show today about protecting one's privacy on cell phones, etc.
I tried all the steps above but my phone reads " E911 location cannot be turned off on any mobile cellular phone"
Thanks for the info on identity protection! Also, a quick hi to Caroline :)
Avast! antivirus will protect your computer AND your Smartphone for free. Setting things to "private" on most social media will help keep things safe, as well.
PLEASE post a link to the complete interview on the Geotagging topic! This is important information for all families to hear and I would like to link it on our school's website and pass it along to all my friends to help protect our kids! This is much more important information than the posted interview with a TV Show Housewife! I would like to be able to link both the tv interview with your link to the Step by Step Guide! Please - help spread the word!
After you go to setting on your Iphone . go to Privacy and there you will see Location Services.
Great guidelines but - when I look for 'Location Services' on my IPhone I do not see that option?.....
It's an IPhone 4 - what is the problem?
I have a dell computer on yahoo. How do I protect my photos?
I also use Norton Internet Security to keep my facebook page safe, and also use https:// settings when accessing facebook and other social media programs