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        <title><![CDATA[Why would Apple fix it?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As far as they are concerned everyone wants location data stamped on their photos (and to be honest most people who are even aware of it do AFAIK). To fix it they would have to admit that the customer may want something different than what Apple tells them.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SKDTech]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 17:17:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I agree]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As a user totally agree that adding location information to photos has security implications. In fact I have location services turned off so that geo-location information doesn't get stamped into my photos. It's too bad that there isn't a mechanism to get the photos via the API without location data. Maybe in a future iOS release Apple will fix this issue.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[chilitechno]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 08:13:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Work around]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have thought about it. And, I do not need to upload photos as you suggest. Adding locational information to images has all sorts of security implications.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 07:00:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Location require for Dropbox (from iPhone -&amp;gt; Dropbox)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You need location access to sync photos FROM your iPhone to Dropbox. But if you simply want to sync a photo from Dropbox to your phone you don't need location access. Dropbox app has two features, to send photos/videos TO the Dropbox and to get files (photos/videos/etc) FROM Dropbox. You don't need location access for the latter. Think about it logically for a second, if the photos/files are on your Dropbox you already have access to them via Dropbox's API through the app, but accessing the photos on the phone (to send to Dropbox) you would need to grant the app access to your photos on the phone. Again, the issue is more nuanced. Sending photos to Dropbox requires location access, getting photos/files from Dropbox does not.  See this screenshot (straight from the Dropbox app - Uploads Tab, click the + sign button)http://img.ly/4wRIcloudsyncr does not sync photos FROM your Dropbox, its only function right now is to send photos TO Dropbox, hence why it needs the location access. Sorry this is just the way it is, if you don't like it, just don't use the app. But as an iOS developer I'm making it clear here why the app requires the access, and to counter any false information.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[chilitechno]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 06:32:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not Dropbox]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I will have to disagree with your point about Dropbox. I just checked three different iPhones and I do not have to activate it in location services and I do not have to turn GPS on to sync any image that is in Dropbox. If I did, I would get rid of that app immediately.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 05:28:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Regarding Location]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Actually, this is the developer of the app chiming in. I want to make it clear that cloudsyncr currently does not use the user's location information. Unfortunately the iOS API which accesses the user's camera roll requires location permission because the photos in the camera roll may have been tagged by the user to contain geo-location information in the image's EXIF meta data. The following link has more information:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5727875/how-can-i-avoid-location-service-from-alassetlibraryIt should be noted that every app which I have seen which requires raw access to the camera roll requires this permission (including Dropbox's own official app). It has nothing to do with serving iAds, which Apple could get the location of your device separately without asking for permission anyway. If you do not say yes to allow access to location data the photos cannot be read. It is unfortunate that Apple has this requirement when accessing the user's camera roll, however since the location meta data is embedded in the file, any access to the file's binary contents would also have access to location data for the photo, if any existed.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[chilitechno]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 08:53:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[CloudSyncr]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is not what one expects. It requires you to turn on GPS:http://www.cloudsyncr.com/faq.htmlThis is potentially a way for the ads that are also shown to associate an image with a location and send it to a remote server. All with cloudsyncr not knowing.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 05:57:33 -0700</pubDate>
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