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Do you take pictures with GPS tags on? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hiya, so quickly wondering wether you have enabled this or not. Obviously it's not great for privacy, but it also seems very nice to have for image cloud solutions, so that images can be sorted based on location. Are there any good solutions for this? I'd like have it enabled, but also afraid of sharing images with sensitive metadata in them.

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you share something with ANY metadata, either delete or encrypt it before sharing

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Right, it's just a tedious process doing that each time you were to share something...

[–] barbara@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It is not, there are apps that do all that for you. E.g. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsif/ couldn't be easier

[–] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

Nice find! Thanks for sharing :)

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

A lot of platforms strip out the meta data. All social media platforms and all messengers I've tried strip out the meta data. There might be some that don't?

Does the meta get stripped locally or on their servers though? I suspect locally.

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Thanks for reminder!