Safety Measures: Remove picture information!
In this industry, you can attract some crazy people. The last thing anyone needs is a stalker! Your photos can store all your information on them.
Not like username and password info. Some photos can be tagged with your real name and coordinates to your exact location! (Ever had your iPhone say something about geotagging or sharing your location? DON'T DO IT!)
On the plus side, this is how criminal justice agencies track down some online predators. But the information is readily available to ANYONE who's looking for it. Don't believe me?
Go to and upload/link to a cell phone picture of yours. Hell, even do one from your webcam!
Now, you might see basic information like the date you took the picture and the camera model, but you could see a Google Maps image of your HOUSE! (I know I did. Scared me straight into a whole new identity LOL)
So, how do you prevent this information from getting on there? Well, if you use webcams, you should be in the clear. For cell phones and digital cameras, just to prevent BASIC stalking, remove that data!
If you use PC, download this remover*:
If you use Mac, download this remover*:
*CNET is a reputable software site. It wouldn't host viruses or any malicious software. If you have any concerns, run an antivirus scan on the files before installing.
Stay safe, everybody!
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Yup.
I see A LOT of girls on twitter who don't take off 'locations' on their smartphones. I DM'd one girl and she replied "Oh, it's not even my house it's the gas station down the street, I don't care lol."
Uhhh. ok.
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For smartphones, you should be able to go into setting and turn location services OFF entirely. Saves trouble, and allows you to take a picture with it and upload it straight to social media without running it through a program on your computer. If you need to use the location services for another app, just turn it on, use it, and turn it back off again.
I am constantly surprised by how many people do not know how to do this - or even that they should! Like you, Hayden, I have told girls (usually local strippers) that they should be doing this, and they just shrug - like it's no big deal. Or it's "too much hassle". Right. Because flipping a button on your iphone is WAY more annoying than taking out a restraining order. SMH
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I like this noob, she's a little techie!!
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Always take out your exif information if you have an iPhone. Better yet, like ManyRoses said, keep your Location information turned off unless you need it for a special reason.
Also, if you upload photos to a work-related site, make sure you retitle them with your stage name or without other personal information. Otherwise, if a guy right clicks and saves your photo to his computer, he will know your name. Some fancier cameras can actually post your coordinates, too, so if you right click on your photo, go to properties. You can view all of the camera information there. Make sure no identifying info is in there. This is especially important if you have your photos taken by a professional photographer.
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I do most of my pics with my webcam, and I always rename them. Is this safe???
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BlondebombGA
I do most of my pics with my webcam, and I always rename them. Is this safe???
It should be. Most webcams don't store personal data. In fact, I don't know of any that do. You can use that site I linked to make double sure. It'll show EVERYTHING stored on the photo. If nothing is stored, that's perfect! But don't worry about minor things like the camera type or the date the photo was created/taken.
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HaydenBlue
Yup.
I see A LOT of girls on twitter who don't take off 'locations' on their smartphones. I DM'd one girl and she replied "Oh, it's not even my house it's the gas station down the street, I don't care lol."
Uhhh. ok.
Wow, that was sweet of you to remind her.
I can't believe some girls don't care if the guys know the street they live on. I don't even tell guys my real state. I live near the west coast, but I tell custies I'm on the east coast.
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Theres another thing you should be aware of when youre posting pictures or sending them directly to customers. Besides 'your location' theres a ton of other information thats 'coded' into the picture when you edit it. (not dangerous information- just files you edited when you made changes)
There was a story online a while back about a blogger who uploaded a picture of herself on her blog, an artsy black and white pic, showing the the top of her cleavage and her neckline, it was very nicely edited and classy. And well, people online were able to right click and save her pic, access the 'coded' files and revert the picture back to the original picture- which was her totally topless, which they then posted all over the net- :(
So if you are doing amateur shots (which we all do) and youre careless about your background cause you figure you can crop out things like the stack of mail on the corner of your bed, or the giant local college poster on the adjacent wall- you may be sending the pics to someone knowledgeable enough to know how to pull that data off and revert the image.
Also with some of the free editing programs, they dont generate a new thumbnail when you edit the pic, which sucks.
So what I usually do, just to be safe, is after I edit, I take a screenshot of the new pic and save it as a totally new file. Then it has no 'editing history' attached to it. It also has no location data. (it does lessen the quality slightly, but its barely noticeable, I mean you have to figure the guys youre sending the pics to are going to be viewing them on the computer not printing them out and hanging them on their walls)
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Yup, another thing is if you're posting a picture from an online file storage program-- like one of the picture portfolios, say Flickr. Someone posts a link to one picture and while you cannot see the rest of their portfolio, you can go into the full url and change the number at the end to get access to other photos in the portfolio. It's not even that time consuming to do to get people's pictures that way, so be careful.
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thanks for this post girls, i ll double check!
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Uhh.....using that Exif viewer I found a potential major security issue that's not the geolocation, but something very similar. I would rather not post it here for the public to see, but if some of the regulars here could PM me I'll tell you what I've noticed and maybe we can figure out how much of a threat this is.