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Chapter 1. The State of Geo > Standards and Community Methods - Pg. 26

Fire Eagle's and Flickr's permissions and privacy pages In fact, of Flickr's current 72 million geotagged media, 22 million--more than 30%--have been marked as pri- vate. This strongly demonstrates the desire by users to have easy mechanisms for keeping some location-based content private. Despite privacy concerns, we expect most people will The other spec, LocationAware Working Group http://LocationAware.org, is working to standardize how an individual's location information is shared with a website through the browser. Though currently in the very early stages, it will become more relevant with the increasing number of location-enabled mobile phones,