{"id":31831,"date":"2021-03-11T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31831"},"modified":"2021-03-11T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T23:58:10","slug":"facebook-gets-location-from-exif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/11\/facebook-gets-location-from-exif\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Gets Location From EXIF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2020\/12\/13\/facebook-tracks-apple-iphone-locations-even-ios-14-and-iphone-12-12-pro-and-pro-max\/?sh=38f0d1dd156b\">Zak Doffman<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuckDuckGo\/status\/1341032429369364480\">DuckDuckGo<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2020\/12\/13\/facebook-tracks-apple-iphone-locations-even-ios-14-and-iphone-12-12-pro-and-pro-max\/?sh=38f0d1dd156b\"><p>When you upload your photos to Facebook or Instagram, most metadata is stripped out and replaced by Facebook&rsquo;s own codes. The date and time remain, but the location data does not. This is a major privacy benefit, you don&rsquo;t want others to download your Facebook or Instagram photos and have details of where you live or work, for example, or to map your movements by the photos you&rsquo;ve taken.<\/p><p>But that location metadata is not thrown away by Facebook&mdash;it is way too valuable. It is harvested, &ldquo;collected and processed&rdquo; to be added to the data treasure trove it holds on each of us. Let&rsquo;s be very clear here, in your iPhone&rsquo;s &ldquo;Location Services&rdquo; settings, under &ldquo;Privacy,&rdquo; you can select to &ldquo;never&rdquo; allow Facebook access to your location. This shuts down the Facebook app&rsquo;s access to the location derived from the iPhone itself when using the app or in background. But Facebook still uses this hidden EXIF workaround and it&rsquo;s your data that is being taken, with most of you not realising it&rsquo;s being done.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Facebook acknowledged to me that it collects and processes EXIF data&mdash;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/policy.php\">it&rsquo;s in its data policy<\/a>, if you know where to look. But its explanation to me focused on technical data to better handle images&mdash;it did not want to be drawn on location data, which is the real issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zak Doffman (via DuckDuckGo): When you upload your photos to Facebook or Instagram, most metadata is stripped out and replaced by Facebook&rsquo;s own codes. The date and time remain, but the location data does not. This is a major privacy benefit, you don&rsquo;t want others to download your Facebook or Instagram photos and have details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-03-11T23:58:13Z","apple_news_api_id":"04249fb0-470d-4f16-9248-95fd96c9e608","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-03-11T23:58:14Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ABCSfsEcNTxaSSJX9lsnmCA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2042,25,432,31,1837,26,355],"class_list":["post-31831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-exchangeable-image-file-format-exif","tag-facebook","tag-gps","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp","tag-privacy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31832,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31831\/revisions\/31832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}