Privacy and Photo:Tech – Kaptur

Privacy and Photo:Tech

Privacy issues could become an industry debilitating issue if the photo:tech industry doesn’t take steps to monitor itself before it is too late.

via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/privacy-phototech/

Next thing you know, or rather, you don’t know, your casual pictures is being analyzed for content. The location ( thank you GPS), the day, the time, the surrounding landscape, your phone make and model and anything and everything else in the photo that can gave them a clue is being analyzed .  Using your Instagram profile, it also can learn much more about you, what you like, where you go and more importantly, what you like to spend your money on. Thanks to your photo, you have just sold your son and yourself to a brand and, in the process, exposed yourself to receiving targeted advertising next time you are on-line