Facebook, Twitter and the like are beginning to make us more conscious of our personal privacy. Our world requires us to turn our minds towards electronic products and exactly how these may influence our reputation and emotions.
Imagine if your camera was to reveal the most intimate details of your love life despite your sure knowledge that you had deleted the private photographs and videos that you had have taken? You could have heard the story of the guy who sold his camera in a backyard sale only to have previously erased 'bedroom' images exposed and displayed to his community.
Facebook has privacy preferences and settings. We can adjust them and restrict, to some level, who may see our images and personal information. However have you ever thought about your camera? Modern cameras are more than simple image recording gadgets. Some can record sound along with still and moving images. Lots of modern cameras can record location info via GPS (Global Positioning Satellites).
Many individuals have no idea that the portable memory cards that fit inside cameras do not erase the photographs you've taken when you press the 'Trashcan' button (or whatever it's called on your camera).
When you push the button that you think is deleting your picture, what actually takes place is that it's marked as being unwanted. It's never shown to you again on the camera screen however it stays on the memory card for an indefinite period of time - simply asking to be 'un-deleted' by any passing teenager with the right cost-free software.
For the majority of individuals this is great - the time saved in operating this way makes operating a modern digital camera less painful as it could be. For a significant minority though there's a potentially catastrophic problem. Many couples, single teenagers and people who should know better enhance their sex lives by taking photos and videos of themselves doing private things. White contained these images rarely cause problems. But consider what happens if these images are discovered by pals, siblings or bosses? What if they show up on facebook?
Taking care of our privacy on-line is something we have to become more savvy about in our modern-day, digital lives. As part of your education and learning it's worth discovering ways to securely remove images and videos from your camera memory card.
It's easy to recover photographs from a memory device, as this on-line video proves:
Don't think this is just about photographs and the things foolish teenagers may get up to. Think business data, company information and confidential client records. They are all digital data and can all be exposed in the same way as images of flesh.
If your work requires you to handle any sort of confidential information, you might think about how you should protect it just as you would protect 'sensitive' photographs of you and your partner. Digital data is here to stay and we have to learn how to control it.
Imagine if your camera was to reveal the most intimate details of your love life despite your sure knowledge that you had deleted the private photographs and videos that you had have taken? You could have heard the story of the guy who sold his camera in a backyard sale only to have previously erased 'bedroom' images exposed and displayed to his community.
Facebook has privacy preferences and settings. We can adjust them and restrict, to some level, who may see our images and personal information. However have you ever thought about your camera? Modern cameras are more than simple image recording gadgets. Some can record sound along with still and moving images. Lots of modern cameras can record location info via GPS (Global Positioning Satellites).
Many individuals have no idea that the portable memory cards that fit inside cameras do not erase the photographs you've taken when you press the 'Trashcan' button (or whatever it's called on your camera).
When you push the button that you think is deleting your picture, what actually takes place is that it's marked as being unwanted. It's never shown to you again on the camera screen however it stays on the memory card for an indefinite period of time - simply asking to be 'un-deleted' by any passing teenager with the right cost-free software.
For the majority of individuals this is great - the time saved in operating this way makes operating a modern digital camera less painful as it could be. For a significant minority though there's a potentially catastrophic problem. Many couples, single teenagers and people who should know better enhance their sex lives by taking photos and videos of themselves doing private things. White contained these images rarely cause problems. But consider what happens if these images are discovered by pals, siblings or bosses? What if they show up on facebook?
Taking care of our privacy on-line is something we have to become more savvy about in our modern-day, digital lives. As part of your education and learning it's worth discovering ways to securely remove images and videos from your camera memory card.
It's easy to recover photographs from a memory device, as this on-line video proves:
Using Free Software to Erase Images from a Camera Memory Card
Don't think this is just about photographs and the things foolish teenagers may get up to. Think business data, company information and confidential client records. They are all digital data and can all be exposed in the same way as images of flesh.
If your work requires you to handle any sort of confidential information, you might think about how you should protect it just as you would protect 'sensitive' photographs of you and your partner. Digital data is here to stay and we have to learn how to control it.
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