Your photos might include information of the exact location and time of the photo taken, your photo/camera models etc. Companies, governments, or someone with bad intentions can use such information for their benefits against you. This can easily be accessed by AI as well.
On Windows 11:
- Right-click on the file
- Properties
- Details
- Remove properties and personal information
Lots of people don’t care, but I guess this could be useful for some of you.
I run it through my 1995-era photo editor that doesn’t support all the metadata.
Why would I use Windows?
I was at a restaurant earlier this year, and I actually saw someone take a picture of their food, screen shot that picture, and send it on their messaging app of choice. Was so cool seeing it happen in person in my tiny town, and not just in the big cities or the internet
any of you allow gps for your photo app?
You guys are uploading personal photos to social media?!
That’s how 99% of social media works
pfft- yeah right. What, it’s populated by a bunch of ignorant twits who were never told any better by even ignoranter twits? I don’t think so
Terrible idea. Hopefully it never catches on or we’re all in deep shit.
Most sites strip metadata thankfully.
Yes, but the company could still keep the data somewhere.
True, but I was thinking of this as someone else viewing the photo seeing the metadata.
Every social-media platform strips EXIF metadata before publishing the photo.
So the issue is the trustworthiness of the social-media platform itself. Personally I always strip the metadata before sharing anything anywhere.
Sure, but let’s say you don’t allow Facebook to track your location. Well, as soon as you upload a photo with location exif data, they know it anyway.
They know the location data in the photo, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s your current location.
Bonus points for faking that data (with, e.g., exiftool).Yeah that’s true but in this scenario it’s your fault, not theirs.
Strips metadata so that the public can’t see it, isn’t the same as stripping metadata after the corporation has already collected and linked it to your profile. 😫
Always clean the metadata BEFORE it touches their upload UI.
Frankly I would extend that distrust to this little miscrosoft button too. With no proof or alternative in mind, it just feels like that button would feed the data to an AI before deleting it.
While this is true, especially with all the Palintir tracking stuff and the insatiable thirst for data to market, it’s far more valuable now than ever to the platform. The platform is happy to keep it and sell it to marketers who will share it for you.
Of course they strip it before publishing and of course they use the stripped data for themselves. Anyone assuming that they won’t should come and buy that bridge that I’m selling, it’s a great opportunity!
This. Literally every social media site strips EXIF data from photos you post or else you would be hearing about 100x the number of doxxes you do these days. This tip would’ve been good in 2006 or if you’re communicating over something unusual like Email or Onionshare
If you are on android: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif
Or just don’t.
with opencamera you can check the option to don’t save any extra data
Linux:
exiftool -overwrite_original -all= ~/Downloads/your_photo.jpgOn linux you should use exifcleaner. The amount of info exiftool can pull from your photos is shocking. I thought Signal exifcleans but not clean enough apparently
There are a million ways to do this, as have already been described in other comments. This is one more. I built https://photostripper.com/ a while back, when I was practicing building small web applications to learn different tech stacks. Lemmy is not the target audience - you folks know how to do this already, and why would you trust that I’m not keeping copies of your photos (I promise I’m not, but what is that worth?)
Anyway, I’m only mentioning it because it’s my thing and I enjoyed making it.
https://guardianproject.info/apps/org.witness.sscphase1/
Above you will find the link for an app called a obscure cam. It’s open source and made by the Guardian Project. It allows you to sensor faces and automatically removes exaptata from your photos so that you don’t put your geolocation on dating apps.
If all of the Tea users used this, that breach wouldn’t be even a quarter as bad. Also would help if they didn’t post their fn drivers license to a dating app.
Since we’re on Lemmy, most people probably use Linux. You can use
mat2for this. It’s CLI thoexiftool
