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Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
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#282It's a sad story and a fun-looking project but I think Google 100% did the right thing here. Most people have no idea how much information is included in photo metadata, and stripping it as much as possible lines up to how people expect the world to work.
If google really cared about privacy, they wouldn't have moved maps away from a subdomain. now if I want maps to have my location (logical), I need to grant google _search_ my location too.
Google doesn't care about privacy, but its easier for them to keep collecting your data if they can also keep it from getting unintentionally leaked to others.
The last thing Google wants is for people to start thinking about the amount of data they're handing over.
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#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also don't trust my government. So should I just degovernment completely? Sounds just as practical or realistic for most people.
"Just move" seems to be a pretty popular sentiment, in that scenario.
As if the government doesn't monitor both non-citizens and ex-citizens living in other countries too.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried moving on from Google, and preferably not to Apple?
Yes, it’s trivial. What are you having difficulty with? There are plenty of threads here on HN about this
If you think it's trivial you must not be paying attention. You cannot keep your data from Google. Government websites include google tracking. Google drives past your house to take photos and sniff your wifi traffic. Your employer hands your data over to google. Your doctor hands your data over to google. Your bank hands your data over to google. You can limit how much you actively and voluntarily give them, but you can't free yourself from them entirely and still function in society.
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#285Interestingly, the Wikipedia app devs prevent you from opting out of sharing supposedly-anonymous data with their app. Supposedly-anonymous because I think we all know how deanonymizing works by now, and how easy it is:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356260
Just more push and pull on privacy, mostly pulling it away from you, it seems.
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#286In a similar move (silently changing a feature crucial to some users), in Android 11 Google suddenly removed the possibility to use "special" characters ": ?|\* in filenames[0], presumably because they're not allowed on Windows/NTFS and Windows users might end up struggling to transfer them to their Windows computer. I don't care about NTFS at all, though. I just want to be able to sync all my files with my Linux mac…
And you don’t see why Google would cater to Windows and a Mac users at the expense of Linux users?
macOS can also handle files with any of those characters in the filename, it's only Windows that's affected.
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#287I am developing an Android application that uses image location data, in fact, the primary purpose of the app is for the user to curate the location data so it is accurate enough to depict the location and life cycle of a flower from a series of timestamped photos of the flower.
I guess I share to point out that the solution of developing a android native app is not that burdensome, and it is some kind of data you want the user to be intentional with.
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#288This prevents uploading pictures, with chain of custody data attached, of law enforcement misbehaving. Was there pressure from ICE to install this feature?
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#289Apple was massively praised when they started stripping location data from shared and uploaded photos.
Apple gives you the option in the photo picker to include or not include the location data.
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
And you don’t see why Google would cater to Windows and a Mac users at the expense of Linux users?
macOS can also handle files with any of those characters in the filename, it's only Windows that's affected.
You mean 90% of desktop users…
I am surprised that the # symbol isn’t on the list.