Almost every photo clicked today - whether using a camera, a feature phone or a smartphone - is geotagged. Most likely almost everyone shares these geotagged photos [whether directly using, for example, email, or otherwise using social networking services such as Facebook, WhatsApp, etc.] without knowing or caring about the geolocation information present in these photos. It can be said with supreme confidence that services such as Facebook devour this information hungrily, attempting to serve both content and advertisements that are ever more "relevant" to the user [raising the odds of him spending money and/or ceding control of himself to Facebook/US government, bit by bit].
Geotagged photos will also significantly increase privacy invasions for revenge porn victims [primarily young females], since photos distributed/leaked with geolocation information intact inside will allow precise tracking of these victims.
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