Re: [apple-iphone] iphone camera embeding location in photos

Sunday, August 1, 2010 8:18 PM By Livemail

 

Yeah. And you always have the option to disable it.
Nothing new.

 Archie 

On Aug 1, 2010, at 20:34, Bill Boulware <bill.boulware@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 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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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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