Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I used to not but I wish I did. I want to know where pictures were taken. Photo album software like Immich can also make cool maps out of your photos this way and group photos by location.
As long as you're not sharing the pictures with anyone, there is no loss of privacy whatsoever in doing this. I don't see any reason to generally label it as "not great for privacy".
When sharing publicly, you need to be careful of course and run the images through an EXIF metadata stripper.
Shoutout to https://f-droid.org/en/packages/deckers.thibault.aves.libre/, which shows your pictures on a map without any cloud service.
If you share something with ANY metadata, either delete or encrypt it before sharing
Right, it's just a tedious process doing that each time you were to share something...
A lot of platforms strip out the meta data. All social media platforms and all messengers I've tried strip out the meta data. There might be some that don't?
Does the meta get stripped locally or on their servers though? I suspect locally.
I just host my own photo backup service and outside of Lemmy, I don't use social media.
Having the location feature enabled is already against privacy in the first place.
No, it's not. That's only if you share them using an online service that didn't remove the metadata and also don't strip it out yourself. That's like saying keeping personal data on your device is against privacy! If that's the case, just get rid of it at that point...
I do. Most sites strip metadata from images anyways. If you're super worried about it, you can just remove the metadata in windows (or your other os) or prior to upload.
I keep it on because I use my phone for geotagging trees on campus for labs.
I would like to have that info for my own photos, but I don't have location services on unless I need them anyway, so it would be pointless.
No. Just in case I forget to remove the information if I post it anywhere.
i do, and together with nextcloud's map application you get a full view of which image was taken where.
just feels really cool after a half decade to have so many pictures so far away, all at one glance.
also, in the current age of large machine learning models, it is scarily easy to use one of these to guess the location. it's like the colkective hive mind of geoguesser players working together, so if one really wants to find ur location based on ur pictures, they really dont even need the metadata anymore
I believe I have it turned on still. Any time I upload my pictures I use ffshare though.