#locationprivacy — Public Fediverse posts
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Google Chrome adds approximate location sharing on Android, giving users more control over privacy
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/chrome-approximate-location-sharing/
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🚨 Breaking: Sharing your location is dangerous! 😱 In 2025, people are fleeing the digital public square like it's a burning building, only to cozy up in group chats that apparently "rule the world." 🌍 Welcome to the apocalypse, where social location sharing is the real villain! 🙄
https://joinreboot.org/p/lighthouses-in-the-sky #locationprivacy #digitalapocalypse #groupchats #socialmedia #safetyconcerns #HackerNews #ngated -
📸 Think your photos don’t reveal much? Think again.
If you’ve enabled geotagging on your phone, each pic may store GPS data (EXIF metadata) — pinpointing where it was taken.
✅ Disable camera location access (iOS/Android)
✅ Strip metadata before sharing
📍 Some platforms remove this info, but don’t rely on it. -
Experimenting with integrating #scikitmobility #privacy checks into #Trajectools 👩💻
Curious? Check out the dev version in:
https://github.com/movingpandas/qgis-processing-trajectory/tree/privacy#MovingPandas #MovementDataAnalytics #LocationPrivacy #MobilityDataScience