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Please tell me you're stripping EXIF tags from all images; otherwise this is just a "rob these people now" list.
by maxaf 7y ago
Please tell me you're stripping EXIF tags from all images; otherwise this is just a "rob these people now" list.
- OberstKrueger 7y agoFirst image I checked for this, full EXIF data is intact, including GPS data.
- arendtio 7y agoKinda surprising, as many web-applications forget to add that meta-data after e.g. resizing photos. Still, not a good idea to upload pictures with GPS data to an online service (unintentionally).
- sitkack 7y agoiOS includes it by default.
- tomjakubowski 7y agoIt disappoints me that there apparently isn't an option on iOS to track photo location using some scheme other than EXIF. I really like being able to organize photos by location on my phone, but I dislike relying on image hosts and social networks to strip EXIF data when I post them to the web. Couldn't iOS store locations for photos it's taken out of band, in a sqlite db or something?
- whenchamenia 7y agoYou can strip your own exif, there are many apps. Do not trust anyone else to do so, or not to keep that data for themselves even when they do. Cougfhaceboockough.
- fyfy18 7y agoSo iOS does it one way, Android does it another, and your old DSLR still stores data in EXIF? Sounds like a great way to be locked into a certain vendor.
- jolmg 7y agoI wish cameras wouldn't default to include location data. Most people don't even know pictures can include that type of info. It really should be an opt-in feature.
- dope 7y agoI'm not, I completely overlooked this :/ I'm adding this to the upload form now and I guess will have to go through and manually remove everyones exif data. Thanks for raising this.
- JaimeThompson 7y agoCan't you just script the removal with something like the tools mentioned here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2654281/how-to-remove-exif-data-without-recompressing-the-jpeg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2654281/how-to-remove-ex... ?
- LeoPanthera 7y agoYou can easily do it with exiftool: exiftool -all= "$@" It's in most *nix repos.
- zerr 7y agoThere is nothing extraordinary though, especially for HN crowd.