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What have they come up with now?
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redgirl47
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just hearing how it's possible for someone to find a location from a phonepic posted online. How can they do that?
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The GPS data is written to EXIF tags by the phone. It can be turned off on the phone if someone wants that. It's just plain latitude, longitude, and altitude.
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too bad more people aren't aware of that when they put their kids pictures online
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Bookface strips all of the metadata when photos are uploaded.
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