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Android now stops you sharing your location in photos


My wife and I run OpenBenches. It's a niche little site which lets people share photos of memorial benches and their locations. Most modern phones embed a geolocation within the photo's metadata, so we use that information to put the photos on a map. Google's Android has now broken that. On the web, we used to use: ⧉ HTML<input type="file" accept="image/jpeg"> That opened the phone's photo p…

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