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Not sure how this is news, "Geo Tagging" of photos has been a feature since
iPhone OS 1

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 19:31, renegade600 <renegade600@yahoo.com> wrote:

> just ran across the following article about how the iphone and other camera
> phones are giving away your location in the pictures you take.
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> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20010809-83.html?tag=mncol;mlt_related
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> 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.
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> 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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