MagnetoSound wrote on Sun, 09 January 2011 13:34 |
Jon Hodgson wrote on Sun, 09 January 2011 13:01 | Your phone is a far more effective way of tracking you.
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Yes, I thought we were talking about phones.
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In the context of the OPs post, the phone part is irrelevant, because we're talking about the metadata added to the photo file, which many cameras do as well as camera phones, and this info isn't transmitted unless you upload the picture. If the geotagging is extended to transmitting your current position and tracking everywhere you go (without at least a court order being in existence to switch it on and security measures to limit who gets access to the info), then that would be a different matter.
However I think most people are aware that they can be tracked to some degree through their phones, even without GPS.
Incidentally, Apple proudly proclaim the geotagging feature in their info, HTC list it in the specs, like I said, nobody's hiding it, it's not really their fault if the users don't read the info or think about the consequences.