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

#technology #tech @technology #business #enshitification #Android #Google @pluralistic #infosec

  • aeternum
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    2 years ago

    I’ve been an avid #nextcloud user since it was owncloud, and won’t go back to using corporate cloud services ever again.