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Sure, why not?

They're already using metadata from users devices to supply traffic map data. Thought that was way cool, then discovered how it worked; Google Maps app actively reports your location behind the scenes.

Was creeped out, but I still use it all the time, despite never remembering giving explicit consent.

Be trivial for them to scrape EXIF data but not actually "peak" into the image data



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