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So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.
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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
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@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic @val Don’t want to defend Google here but this looks more like “we don’t change the image’s EXIF data stored *inside* the binary image file. Estimated location can be edited because it is stored outside that file”
@ajsadauskas @technology @pluralistic @val or more generally: Google could offer a way to trim the actual EXIF data but that would be an entire different process than just touching an entry in a database.