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Revisiting Geolocation Metadata In Our Toys

If you take a picture with a device, then post it to a social network, you could be unwittingly advertising your exact location. GPS coordinates could be harvested from pictures posted to online services. Many manufacturers have modified their default settings since then. Some have disabled geotagging by default, while others have implemented a more granular approach, in which individual applications request permission when required. PSVita is capable of embedding geolocation data in a picture, despite having any capabilities or hardware.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2013/06/revisiting-geolocation-metadata-in-our-toys/

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