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You can get similar functionality by mapping the pictures you've taken using their coordinate metadata. Google is even working on this for Google Photos: https

You can get similar functionality by mapping the pictures you've taken using their coordinate metadata. Google is even working on this for Google Photos: https://9to5google.com/2020/06/11/google-photos-explore-map/ https://9to5google.com/2020/06/11/google-photos-explore-map/ In general, I think "privacy as a right" is a better approach for society. If people want to opt out of privacy, they should have that ability, but that should be a choice.

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oefrha 6y ago
Not everyone snaps a selfie every time they go to the bathroom, so no, a lot of us can’t get the same functionality by mapping photos. That is not to say your device can’t keep a location history without sending it to someone’s server.
- Someone1234 6y ago
  You have a very narrow view of how people use smartphone cameras. Want to remember your e.g. hotel room number, parking garage floor/zone, or bus stop? Snap. Backup your plane ticket? Snap it. Record the wiring before an upgrade? Snap. To input your dietary nutrition later? Food picture. Part/model number? That's a picture. See behind something? Etc, etc. The fact you only think smartphone cameras are for "bathroom selfies" (?) says more about you than whomever you're trying to disparage, because you're obviously under-utilizing an extremely valuable tool in your pocket because you've put it into a tiny box and dismissed it.
  - oefrha 6y ago
    “Bathroom selfies” is just a tongue-in-cheek way to refer to frequent photo takers. If you’re somehow offended, I apologize, what the hell. I don’t need to remember my hotel room number or parking garage zone or bus stop every day. Even when I do I don’t need a photo, sorry, got a pretty good memory, and a digital notebook too. Under-utilize, sure, whatever, it’s my fucking phone and I didn’t ask you to judge. The fact is me and a whole host of people I know who don’t snap photos frequently enough (yeah, been talking to quite some friends about how we’ve basically been spending a fair bit of money on cameras that we don’t use very much) won’t get “the same functionality” as you were claiming, so I hope you’re not on a design panel for something like this where people who don’t conform to your expected usage pattern just get a FU. Also: who the hell keep those parking garage photos around?
    - toast0 6y ago
      > Also: who the hell keep those parking garage photos around? I do! Although, that's because I don't take a lot of pictures, and I look at them even less, so they just accumulate. But it's rarely become a space issue (because I'm not taking many), so whatever. The act of taking the picture seals the memory, so I don't usually have to look.
    - inetknght 6y ago
      > Also: who the hell keep those parking garage photos around? Storage is cheap. Having the image for some currently-undefined later use can be invaluable. Never using it later is cheaper than the opportunity cost of knowing it was there but now isn't.
  - Kique 6y ago
    Huh? You claim you can get the same functionality of location tracking by just taking photos of everywhere you've ever gone, and oefrha said they don't want to take a picture at every place they've ever gone (like a bathroom). I don't think his take is that narrow or regressive. When I go to a restaurant I don't like taking pictures of the food, or pictures of the restaurant. I like enjoying the food and the company I'm with - but maybe I'm regressive.
seph-reed 6y ago
Consent is a big deal. It really grinds my gears when companies (or people) try to be sneaky by treating silence as consent.

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oefrha 6y ago

Not everyone snaps a selfie every time they go to the bathroom, so no, a lot of us can’t get the same functionality by mapping photos. That is not to say your device can’t keep a location history without sending it to someone’s server.

Someone1234 6y ago
You have a very narrow view of how people use smartphone cameras. Want to remember your e.g. hotel room number, parking garage floor/zone, or bus stop? Snap. Backup your plane ticket? Snap it. Record the wiring before an upgrade? Snap. To input your dietary nutrition later? Food picture. Part/model number? That's a picture. See behind something? Etc, etc. The fact you only think smartphone cameras are for "bathroom selfies" (?) says more about you than whomever you're trying to disparage, because you're obviously under-utilizing an extremely valuable tool in your pocket because you've put it into a tiny box and dismissed it.
- oefrha 6y ago
  “Bathroom selfies” is just a tongue-in-cheek way to refer to frequent photo takers. If you’re somehow offended, I apologize, what the hell. I don’t need to remember my hotel room number or parking garage zone or bus stop every day. Even when I do I don’t need a photo, sorry, got a pretty good memory, and a digital notebook too. Under-utilize, sure, whatever, it’s my fucking phone and I didn’t ask you to judge. The fact is me and a whole host of people I know who don’t snap photos frequently enough (yeah, been talking to quite some friends about how we’ve basically been spending a fair bit of money on cameras that we don’t use very much) won’t get “the same functionality” as you were claiming, so I hope you’re not on a design panel for something like this where people who don’t conform to your expected usage pattern just get a FU. Also: who the hell keep those parking garage photos around?
  - toast0 6y ago
    > Also: who the hell keep those parking garage photos around? I do! Although, that's because I don't take a lot of pictures, and I look at them even less, so they just accumulate. But it's rarely become a space issue (because I'm not taking many), so whatever. The act of taking the picture seals the memory, so I don't usually have to look.
  - inetknght 6y ago
    > Also: who the hell keep those parking garage photos around? Storage is cheap. Having the image for some currently-undefined later use can be invaluable. Never using it later is cheaper than the opportunity cost of knowing it was there but now isn't.
- Kique 6y ago
  Huh? You claim you can get the same functionality of location tracking by just taking photos of everywhere you've ever gone, and oefrha said they don't want to take a picture at every place they've ever gone (like a bathroom). I don't think his take is that narrow or regressive. When I go to a restaurant I don't like taking pictures of the food, or pictures of the restaurant. I like enjoying the food and the company I'm with - but maybe I'm regressive.

seph-reed 6y ago

Consent is a big deal. It really grinds my gears when companies (or people) try to be sneaky by treating silence as consent.