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So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones. (mediacdn.aus.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.

Remember when Google's corporate motto was "don't be evil?"

Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.

From Google: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."

It's enshitification in action.

Source: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6153599?hl=en&sjid=8103501961576262529-AP

#technology #tech @technology #business #enshitification #Android #Google @pluralistic #infosec

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic That is really evil. I have a Pixel 4a, but I'm running GrapheneOS for security.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic

Probably also useful for AI data sets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic @amyegan Insanity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic My previous phone was a Pixel 2. My new phone is an iPhone as I've had enough of Google. Not that Apple is perfect. It's all levels of evil really.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic do we have start lawyering for exif data to be owned by the author???

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@technology @ajsadauskas @pluralistic image description:
Google instructions on how to edit or remove an estimated location from a photo reading
“Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic
In fairness I don't post any photos anywhere that still have EXIF location information unless it's obvious where the photo is taken and it's not a people picture.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic this is going to backfire on them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic I have no personal knowledge of the matter, but it reminds me of the quote - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

@technology @pluralistic

And with that I continue to inch closer and closer to giving up and getting a linux phone...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I usually edit my photos in gimp.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic @reselsnark if you want to remove location data from photos, open them in the standard paint on a windows computer and save. It kills a lot of metadata

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

@pluralistic @ajsadauskas that's why I would never use a Google Phone.

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