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Seigo: Plasma.next()?

Seigo: Plasma.next()?

Posted Jan 30, 2013 12:27 UTC (Wed) by micka (subscriber, #38720)
In reply to: Seigo: Plasma.next()? by bluebugs
Parent article: Seigo: Plasma.next()?

The GPS unit is _of course_ disabled on my camera and my phone. I sometimes happy to share my photos, and the timestamp is (more than) enough information to leak.


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Seigo: Plasma.next()?

Posted Jan 30, 2013 12:31 UTC (Wed) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]

Can't edit, I forgot to add that it's usually better for the device battery duration.

Seigo: Plasma.next()?

Posted Jan 30, 2013 13:07 UTC (Wed) by bluebugs (subscriber, #71022) [Link]

This is a different problem. I wish that web browser where more responsible and propose to remove this meta data when uploading file. Hopefully a semantic aware environment would care about that. It is clearly a shame to restrict ourself localy just because of crappy tool.

Seigo: Plasma.next()?

Posted Jan 30, 2013 13:55 UTC (Wed) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]

Well, I don't share my photos using websites either :)
And when I put them on a web reachable location, I don't do it with my browser (but they are access restricted anyway).

But when I share photos with others, I can't control what they will do with them, so I can't be sure they won't be uploaded somewhere.

Seigo: Plasma.next()?

Posted Jan 30, 2013 18:16 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

But tools to automatically strip sensitive metadata such as GPS tags make sense in any case because that is something anyone will rarely _want_ to share.

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