The picture metadata exploit is interesting. It would be trivial to guess the user's home and work location given enough photos with EXIF data (locations and timestamps).
I'm curious how this works on iOS. Granting complete access to "Photos" always seemed overly broad. It should be possible to limit an app to only save images, and/or limit accessing images to photos from the last 3 days etc, or only the images the app has created.
Allowing an app to grab literally years of time and location information (via photo EXIF data) just to do something as simple as saving a filtered picture or opening a screenshot seems bad.
But as someone who loves metadata, I'd can't see myself disabling it altogether. Does anyone know how this works today on iOS? Can an app wholesale upload thousands of pics (or just the metadata) in the background without the user knowing?