EXIF Metadata Privacy
Discussions center on EXIF data in images, including privacy risks like embedded location coordinates, and how platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Imgur strip or preserve this metadata.
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One shouldn't forget about exif data on images.
That's exif metadata, so it should Just Work™
Oh no this is a bad idea. There's a bunch of data (including location!) that is often included in EXIF.
Doesn’t Facebook strip EXIF data?
Does it fix Facebook's removal of exif/metadata from images?
Presumably a place like Meta saves all of EXIF data for themselves and serves the end users sanitized ones. I bet you could still fingerprint an image and know what actual camera it came from based on imperfections in the optical sensor, though.
And yet people complain that imgur strips exif data.
Imgur strips EXIF data on upload, so that's unlikely.
Aren't those stored (only) in EXIF?
Last I heard, Instagram strips EXIF data on upload.