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Something I realized a while ago is that even if there isn't EXIF data left behind, you can pretty easily track a lot of photos- I've seen pictures of houses wi
by Vexs 10y ago
Something I realized a while ago is that even if there isn't EXIF data left behind, you can pretty easily track a lot of photos- I've seen pictures of houses with readable licence plates in the parking lot, or a street name visible, house numbers, etc. If you really want to hide yourself, you have to try pretty hard to obscure data.
Consider one thing I saw- the guy said he lived in north Dakota publicly, and had a photo looking out of his garage. Visible was the street name on a signpost, and the house number across from him. Completely innocuous, but it's way more than enough to narrow him down completely. EXIF is easy, but to stay anon properly is hard.
- stevekemp 10y agoSometimes it can be the smallest of things: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/21/us/project-vic-child-abuse/ http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/21/us/project-vic-child-abuse...
- yoodenvranx 10y agoThere is/was a subreddit dedicated to this. You could post a picture and the other users had to guess the location of the picture. Unfortunately I can't remember its name.
- Vexs 10y agoThere's also a number of browser games that do the same thing- geoguesser being the big one. Paranoid idea is that the NSA could use these online games to do... something.
- CM30 10y agoPerhaps the solution to this might be to use a blue/green screen for anything important? Like they do in movies, and ideally with a fictional location or other decoy setting in the background. Of course, that wouldn't work for people landing landscape photos, but it might work for say, someone posting an image confirming their identity or showing a document or item they're in possession of.