If you’re a parent who posts cellphone photos of your kids online, you’ll want to read this. You may be putting your child’s safety at risk.

With the click of a mouse, online hackers can search photos of your family posted all over the web on sites like Facebook, Twitter and Photobucket, reports NBCActionNews.

New technology and location services, like GPS, makes it easy to track down a person even from a simple email, and pinpoint their location and places they frequent. It’s like giving a stranger access to your kid’s school, local playground or afterschool activities. Hackers can even map out where a child’s bedroom is within a home. Scary stuff.

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One social-media savvy mom, Gina Cohen, weighed in on this frightening news.
“I am always very concerned about the privacy of the photos I take of my kids - I check to be sure my Facebook settings are set to 'friends only' so that nobody else can see what I'm posting, so when I saw this video it really scared me,” said Cohen. She checked her phone and found that location services were defaulted to “off” for her camera.

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But then found out this week that when responding to Facebook messages from her phone, her exact location is accessible via the “location” icon.
“That was hugely troubling as well,” said Cohen. “It makes me very leery about posting anythingremotely personal anymore.”

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Office Mark Chudik of Leawood Police in Leawood, Kan. called this hidden threat, “today’s biggest risk online – it’s probably going to be No. 1 for a while.”

Next time you’re inclined to capture your kid’s moment of cuteness, be sure to turn off your GPS settings. You never know who may be watching online.

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