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Sooner or later people will begin to realize the copy is the USP of this site. Because the tool is already on your phone. No, really. x.com/axbom/status/8…

For example, go into the photo library on an iPhone and choose to see details of the photo. Your photo is neatly placed on a map.

Any photo you send to someone else or that you receive, you can do this with. The only prerequisite is that the photo is tagged.

Most phones tag your photo with GPS coordinates whether you like it or not. It's a default setting that people do not know to opt out of.

The real culprits, alas, are the phone and software manufacturers who keep most people in the dark about what is shared in a photo.

🔗 Originally posted on Twitter

Per Axbom reply Twitter

↪ Replying to @unknown

@Andrew_Wyld @DickPicLocator Good. The point of this experiment is to raise these types of questions. The functionality is already built into most smartphones but >

@Andrew_Wyld @DickPicLocator > most people seem unaware. If you download a photo to an iPhone for example and ask to see details for a photo, you see it on a map.

@Andrew_Wyld @DickPicLocator For Instagram these are "scraped out" as you put it, because you can not download Instagram photos. On the other hand, people tend to share>

@Andrew_Wyld @DickPicLocator > location on Instagram anyway.

@Andrew_Wyld @DickPicLocator What I need to check is to see what happens if you share an Instagram photo to Facebook and someone downloads from there.

@Andrew_Wyld @DickPicLocator But the issue of locating random innocent social media users is already an issue, but there's a huge lack of awareness.

🔗 Originally posted on Twitter