[apple-iphone] iphone camera embeding location in photos

Saturday, July 31, 2010 4:31 PM By Livemail

 

just ran across the following article about how the iphone and other camera phones are giving away your location in the pictures you take.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20010809-83.html?tag=mncol;mlt_related

quote:

NEW YORK--Be warned: If you take a snapshot with your iPhone or other camera-enabled gadget, it may divulge more information about you than your photographic abilities.

At the Next HOPE hacker conference here on Friday, a security researcher demonstrated how he scanned over 2.5 million photo links posted to Twitter and extracted exact latitude and longitude coordinates embedded in over 65,000 photos -- typically without the user's knowledge.

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