🆕 blog! “Android now stops you sharing your location in photos”
My wife and I run OpenBenches. It's a niche little site which lets people share photos of memorial benches and their locations. Most modern phones embed a geolocation within the photo's metadata, so we use that information to put the photos on a map.
Google's…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/android-now-stops-you-sharing-your-location-in-photos/
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#android #geolocation #geotagging #google #OpenBenches
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@Edent so you sustain that the timing of this and the Google-owned abuse of geodata to gain a competitive edge is a coincidence?
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/pokemon-go-delivery-robots-niantic-b2939449.html
Sorry, couldn't hold myself from linking the dots.
@mapto I make no claims either way. Feel free to investigate and then write a blog post about it.