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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon megamattron

Scrub EXIF data from images

Open Wilfred opened this issue 12 years ago • 4 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5120767

Wilfred avatar Jan 26 '13 19:01 Wilfred

I would like to have the OPTION of having images scrubbed. Sometimes, the geolocation data is what's actually important. Simple example would be someone taking photos of gulag prison camps in NK. Having the exact location would be extremely helpful

wedtm avatar Jan 27 '13 01:01 wedtm

Yeah, might be nice to allow the data to remain, but it seems like it'd be a good idea to have the default be to remove the data. I'll look into what android puts in the EXIF data and see what can be done.

megamattron avatar Jan 27 '13 04:01 megamattron

Location Data might be usefull. Maybe the best is to try and delete all data that could link back to the device taking the picture.

MrSnowflake avatar Jan 27 '13 20:01 MrSnowflake

We're half the way there thanks to @zawarudo's pull request, once we add a preferences system we'll allow people to also scrub GPS.

megamattron avatar Feb 09 '13 19:02 megamattron