Reply to post: Re: solution seems easy enough

Leaky-by-design location services show outsourced security won't ever work

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Re: solution seems easy enough

Separate out the permissions to view photo from read geotag from image. Any app that lacks the applicable permission gets a modified version of the jpg where the EXIF tag for it has been nulled out.

The problem I can see happening almost immediately is that someone else will want other information blocked, and others want to insert data. It seems there is scope for some sort of an EXIF filter API, but for one problem: Google probably wants that data too so they're not going to make it that easy to control it.

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